Hi,
there's been quite some effort to get Windows XP running on Apple's new Intel Macs. And not all of it was by Apple.
Interesting is that one guy opened his source code of an EFI compatibility handler. Maybe it is a good inspiration for LinuxBIOS?
http://daemons.net/~clay/index.php/2006/03/15/dual-booting-windows-xp-and-ma... http://daemons.net/~clay/OSXP/
Stefan
On 4/6/06, Stefan Reinauer stepan@openbios.org wrote:
Interesting is that one guy opened his source code of an EFI compatibility handler. Maybe it is a good inspiration for LinuxBIOS?
yes, I wonder if we could use that compatibility handler. It would be an interesting experiment.
ron
Apple Marketing on BIOS:
"Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."
John DeGood wrote:
Apple Marketing on BIOS:
"Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."
I read that too. Pretty funny, once you start looking at EFI code ...
ron
* Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [060407 16:38]:
"Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."
I read that too. Pretty funny, once you start looking at EFI code ...
The really ultra-modern innovative part - and the only one that was not coped by IEEE 1275-1994 (yeah last century) - was the intellectual property closed source thingie.
The good thing is nobody except Intel and Apple are supporting EFI actively yet.
Stefan
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