Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs?

On 1/13/06, Jung-uk Kim <jkim_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006 04:26 pm, alan bryan wrote:
> > I read that the new Intel (x86) Macs use EFI rather
> > than the traditional PC Bios to boot up.  I'm
> > interested in using one of these to multiboot OS X and
> > FreeBSD and am wondering if it is yet known to work or
> > not.  Do any changes need to be made to FreeBSD or
> > should it work out of the box? Thanks for any insight
> > and I know that it may be impossible to fully answer
> > until people get their hands on the hardware but I
> > just wanted to start thinking about the possibilities.
>
> If it has something called CSM, it should be able to boot FreeBSD:
>
> http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/64E7EA353646669ECA2570F50012430B
>
> In fact, Intel has been using EFI on recent motherboards such as
> SE7520AF2:
>
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7520af2/index.htm
>
> They didn't say it on the web page but it does have EFI.
>
> If the Apple hardware doesn't have CSM, then we have to make
> 'EFI-aware' boot loader chain and add EFI interface (instead of vm86
> bios calls) to i386 kernel. :-(
>
> Jung-uk Kim
>
> PS: Sorry to bring up Linux here but Linux won't have the problem
> because Intel has added EFI support for i386:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105848983307228&w=2
>
> and EFI LILO (for both i386 and ia64) is here:
>
> http://elilo.sourceforge.net/
>
> Just FYI...

The linux 2.6.x kernels have support for EFI as well.  I'm not sure
how much help ELILO really needs to provide anymore as a result.

dave