On 4/5/06, Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > David Leimbach wrote: > > You'd need a way to boot it first of all. > > > > No x86 based mac has BIOS. It's all EFI, and without the BIOS > > backward compatibility modules. > > > > I don't think EFI is the huge deal people are making it out to be. It's > an OS loader, in the end. A pretty awful OS loader, and an even worse > operating system (it really is an OS ...), but you could rip off the > linux efi support and away you go. >
EFI can do away with VGA BIOSes, therefore it's good :) (UGA being the replacement) Yes, it is an OS. I've got Python and Perl for EFI laying around here somewhere. It gives people abilities they didn't have with BIOS before, unless they were using something like LinuxBIOS perhaps. > EFI support in linux looks to be one file. I think you'll be able to > boot linux native sooner or later. > Yeah, but it still needs ELILO to boot is my understanding. Last time I dealt with this was early Itanium1 systems. Not pretty. > BTW, people looking for projects: ACPI is badly needed. > As long as it's not from FreeBSD... that hasn't worked right on any of my machines in the last 2 major released of FreeBSD. And the funny thing is, the betas of freebsd *were* working. They just like to break it before release it seems. I always have to turn it off. Somehow I never have these problems with the linux implementation of ACPI. > ron >
