[haiku-development] Re: EFI (was: multi-selection semantics)
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:25:18 +0200
Ryan Leavengood wrote (2007-06-06, 20:12:36 [+0200]):
> On 6/6/07, Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I figured that much, by my question was more in the direction
> > whether
> > EFI support is planned and/or what the challenges and issues are to
> > realize
> > EFI support (apart from HW availability).
>
> This isn't my area of expertise in the least, but it seems we would
> need a developer with EFI hardware, the necessary specs, and the
> motivation to do the work (which for all we know might be extensive.)
>
> My argument might be that the target market for this might be so small
> as to not be a viable project for the core Haiku team. But if someone
> with a MacBook Pro or other EFI hardware really wanted to get Haiku
> running on it, I'm sure they would get full support from the project.
How similar in concept are OpenFirmware and EFI? Because it seems Ingo has
gotten pretty far with the OpenFirmware bootloader, until he stopped
because networking was not done yet (at the time). He wrote the bootloader
so that it would boot off of a "remote disk", which was the image he
generated in Linux with a PPC crosscompiler. A nice setup for having "ok"
turn around times during development. Maybe the framework can be reused for
EFI? I'd love to have that, because I am eager to by a Mac for a long time.
On the other hand, Macs have BootCamp, maybe it would be a lot faster to
fix whatever problem renders Haiku unable to boot in that setup. If that's
even the case. Anyone tried it at all?
Best regards,
-Stephan
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