From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: macbook EFI experiences
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:18:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080530151837.GA7529@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4840123A.5020003@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:42:02AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> okay, I just tried a few days ago's grub2 CVS without patches for i386
> efi, because presumably if that doesn't work for me then nothing else
> will either (though it's possible that a working x86-64 would work
> better for this particular EFI firmware, I suppose)
Actually, I think it's better supported via grub-pc. In BIOS we have a
workaround for the keyboard bug. Was there any other kind of trouble?
> The other thing I noticed is, while running grub2-efi, the fan goes on
> to max speed/noisyness. (But grub2 isn't intended to be a huge fancy OS
> so there may be nothing reasonable to do about this.)
Sounds like a firmware bug (busy polling for keyboard input). Does this
device have an AT keyboard? Our keyboard driver has the same bug, too, but
at least we can fix it ;-)
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 14:42 macbook EFI experiences Isaac Dupree
2008-05-30 15:18 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-05-30 16:06 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-30 16:17 ` Bean
2008-05-30 16:29 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-30 19:26 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-30 21:01 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-31 9:35 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 9:41 ` rename partmap/pc.c? (Re: macbook EFI experiences) Robert Millan
2008-05-31 17:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-01 10:23 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-01 17:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-05-31 18:57 ` macbook EFI experiences Isaac Dupree
2008-05-31 19:26 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 19:52 ` Bean
2008-05-31 21:10 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 21:46 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-06-03 6:06 ` Bean
2008-06-03 16:28 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-06-03 18:28 ` Bean
2008-06-04 11:01 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-06-04 11:08 ` Bean
2008-06-04 11:27 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-06-04 11:35 ` Bean
2008-06-04 13:03 ` Isaac Dupree
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