[haiku-development] Re: EFI (was: multi-selection semantics)

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:19:32 +0200

On 2007-06-06 at 19:58:54 [+0200], Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> >Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> And I don't give up the hope that one time in the future Haiku will
> >> have an
> >> EFI compatible bootloader in order to be able to be run on the
> >> sexiest
> >> notebooks (design wise) on this planet.
> >> 
> >> Btw, what is the current status concerning EFI support?
> >
> >Simple: there is none :-)
> 
> 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).

EFI support is definitely a must-have. And I'm at least not aware of any 
particular challenges. Just donate me a current Mac notebook and I'll work 
on it. :-P

> My feeling  tells me, that we might see more EFI based products in the
> future.

Yep, I expect we will.

CU, Ingo

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