From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4433D894.6070007@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:47:48 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Mac Mini x86? References: <3e1162e60604050726s4e5164cfy2f650bbc907db4fa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60604050726s4e5164cfy2f650bbc907db4fa@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3033c75a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 David Leimbach wrote: > You'd need a way to boot it first of all. > > No x86 based mac has BIOS. It's all EFI, and without the BIOS > backward compatibility modules. > I don't think EFI is the huge deal people are making it out to be. It's an OS loader, in the end. A pretty awful OS loader, and an even worse operating system (it really is an OS ...), but you could rip off the linux efi support and away you go. EFI support in linux looks to be one file. I think you'll be able to boot linux native sooner or later. BTW, people looking for projects: ACPI is badly needed. ron