Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-30 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Mike Erdely wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Tasmanian Devil wrote: The i386 GENERIC.MP kernel runs fine on Intel Macs. You just need to enable ACPI with config -ef bsd.mp (or on the boot prompt). This

Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread David Given
Is there anyone working on porting OpenBSD to Intel Apple hardware? Such as the Macbook? I can't imagine it would be particularly hard; there'd need to be a way of loading and running a kernel via EFI, and then tweaking the hardware detection. The reason why I ask is that I've been eyeing the

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Greg Thomas
On 3/29/07, David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone working on porting OpenBSD to Intel Apple hardware? Such as the Macbook? Scan the freakin' email archives. There are several recent notes about the laptops, nothing about the AppleTV yet that I've noticed. Greg

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Tasmanian Devil
Is there anyone working on porting OpenBSD to Intel Apple hardware? Such as the Macbook? The i386 GENERIC.MP kernel runs fine on Intel Macs. You just need to enable ACPI with config -ef bsd.mp (or on the boot prompt). I can't imagine it would be particularly hard; there'd need to be a way of

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Tasmanian Devil
Scan the freakin' email archives. There are several recent notes about the laptops, nothing about the AppleTV yet that I've noticed. I just searched a bit about this Apple TV: It might be necessary to remove the harddisk to copy OpenBSD on it, but otherwise it could work (as a server, not as a

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, David Given wrote: Is there anyone working on porting OpenBSD to Intel Apple hardware? Such as the Macbook? I can't imagine it would be particularly hard; there'd need to be a way of loading and running a kernel via EFI, and then tweaking the hardware detection. Work

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Tasmanian Devil wrote: Is there anyone working on porting OpenBSD to Intel Apple hardware? Such as the Macbook? The i386 GENERIC.MP kernel runs fine on Intel Macs. You just need to enable ACPI with config -ef bsd.mp (or on the boot prompt). This is not true. At least

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Tasmanian Devil
Is there anyone working on porting OpenBSD to Intel Apple hardware? Such as the Macbook? The i386 GENERIC.MP kernel runs fine on Intel Macs. You just need to enable ACPI with config -ef bsd.mp (or on the boot prompt). This is not true. At least it has been reported that the MacBook Pro

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Mike Erdely
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Tasmanian Devil wrote: The i386 GENERIC.MP kernel runs fine on Intel Macs. You just need to enable ACPI with config -ef bsd.mp (or on the boot prompt). This is not true. At least it has been reported that the MacBook Pro with Core Due 2 processor does

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread David Given
Mike Erdely wrote: [...] Tas is right. I have my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo dual booting with OS X and OpenBSD (snap around 3/10). I _think_ my installation process was this (since I didn't do make release with -current): 1. Install 4.0 from the CD. 2. Copy an ACPI-enabled bsd.rd to a CDROM,

Re: Apple hardware support?

2007-03-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Mike Erdely wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Tasmanian Devil wrote: The i386 GENERIC.MP kernel runs fine on Intel Macs. You just need to enable ACPI with config -ef bsd.mp (or on the boot prompt). This is not true. At least it has been reported that