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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:28:49 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> wrote:
> Looks like Apple's BIOS emulator doesn't emulate a standard keyboard.
>  9load loops forever in i8042init waiting for "a quiescent controller".
>
>

EFI would have to support that via SMM. The bios emulator can't do it
via SMM, since EFI already owns that. It's unlikely that the apple
hardware requires ancient stuff like 8042 emulation.

So you need to get rid of pc legacy IO I bet.

ron