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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] vm ongoing woes
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:46:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bfbc9df615b6da2fa6aa50471b8a35b@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1106221738100.16062@haldir.orthanc.ca>

On Wed Jun 22 20:41:07 EDT 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> But speaking of annoyed, have you done any DSDT rewrites to get gear
> going? From what I've seen of EFI it seems like it's just an excuse to
> rewrite all the fucked up ACPI tables they (read: intel) got wrong the
> first time around. sigh.

in concept, bios was a much better idea than either.  sadly time marched
on and rather than work out what a reasonable 32-bit or 64-bit bios might
look like, we got a real second system.

i do have plan 9 running on some supposedly-efi-based motherboards
from intel.  clearly if they really were booting in efi mode, i wouldn't
get that far.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-23  0:29 Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:36   ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23  0:37     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:40   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:46     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-06-23 15:09     ` ron minnich
2011-06-23 15:12       ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23 15:18       ` dexen deVries
2011-06-23 16:11         ` David Leimbach
2011-06-23  0:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23  1:11   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  1:13     ` erik quanstrom

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