If this is really true (that the bios is the issue) maybe something
like BAMBIOS (if it ever gets released) might help us:

http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/legacyboot/

Anybody conversant enough in the difference between the rev 1 and rev
2 EFI bios emulation care to speculate?

Sheer

On 6/4/07, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to ask anyone knowledgable and concerned about MBP C2D
> ATI issues to get involved in my discussion over at Phoronix:
>
> http://www.phoronix.net/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=8891
>
> Michael Larabel (of Phoronix) has gotten a response from AMD that the
> cause of the powerplay problem is that fglrx requires some BIOS
> feature that the MBP doesn't support.  I'm trying to find out more
> since afaik the MBP doesn't even have a BIOS but uses EFI instead.  So
> the question becomes can we get EFI to give fglrx whatever it needs
> and, why is this not an issue for the rev 1 MBPs.
>
> If we can nail down this problem we can possibly find an easy way to fix it.
>
> thanks,
> Sheer
>

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