[haiku-development] Re: EFI (was: multi-selection semantics)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:06:45 +0200 CEST
> > 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.
He might want to have a look at the nbd driver (Axel, any fancier name
?) I wrote, he should be able to publish the remote image and use it as
boot disk somehow... should only require some code in the bootloader to
pass the ip/port to nbd (as driver settings currently) and remember to
boot from it.
> 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?
Don't have a mac here, but I already suggested that, no feedback yet.
François.
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