To answer the original question, I think not. Not on its own. macOS needs Clover. Clover needs UEFI. UEFI means Tianocore for payload. So coreboot+Tianocore+Clover, where Clover would be handled like any other bootloader eg. grub. I'm not sure if there porting Clover as a coreboot payload is necessary, practical, or even possible. At the very least it is a lot of work.
Regards Keith
coreboot doesn't boot the OS, it performs hardware initialization and passes control to a payload (SeaBIOS, GRUB, Tianocore, etc. - these are payloads). So you would have to use something like clover anyway.
On 6/8/20 6:22 PM, lol wrote:
Hi, I wanted to ask if coreboot is capable of booting macOS. There are bootloaders like clover and opencore that does the job but does coreboot do this thing with more efficiency?
Hi- Apparently Matthew (mjg59@srcf.ucam.org) made some modifications to allow booting OS X without Clover. I'm not sure if his changes are current or if they're specific to the X210 which they were made on / for, but I had the same question and that was the answer I got at the time. Never tried it though, I'd suggest you ask him for the details, as I don't have any specifics.
Cheers, R
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:29 PM Keith Hui buurin@gmail.com wrote:
To answer the original question, I think not. Not on its own. macOS needs Clover. Clover needs UEFI. UEFI means Tianocore for payload. So coreboot+Tianocore+Clover, where Clover would be handled like any other bootloader eg. grub. I'm not sure if there porting Clover as a coreboot payload is necessary, practical, or even possible. At the very least it is a lot of work.
Regards Keith
coreboot doesn't boot the OS, it performs hardware initialization and
passes control to a payload (SeaBIOS, GRUB, Tianocore, etc. - these are payloads). So you would have to use something like clover anyway.
On 6/8/20 6:22 PM, lol wrote:
Hi, I wanted to ask if coreboot is capable of booting macOS. There are
bootloaders like clover and opencore that does the job but does coreboot do this thing with more efficiency? _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-leave@coreboot.org
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