From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] osx bootloader
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:20:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E90E3C.2000906@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140129030736.GA23361@crash.ini.cmu.edu>
On 01/29/2014 04:07 AM, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:51:25PM +0100, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>> Here are some pages that might help enlightening the boot process:
>>
>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/booting/booting.html
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/efi-boot-process.html#Apple
>> http://developer.apple.com./mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/References/ManPages/man8/bless.8.html
> So, basically, every well-behaved OS will drop a (set of) files
> somewhere under /EFI/<vendor>/, except for OS X which expects the
> BIOS/firmware to bypass all that mundane stuff and go straight for
> /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi on a the selected boot
> partition, and only fall back to /EFI/* if that doesn't pan out :)
>
> But now I think it's starting to make sense. Chameleon's stage2
> loader, named "boot" (which we're starting via "-kernel boot", and
> which is the only piece of Chameleon we need) is apparently equivalent
> to Apple's "boot.efi", which it bypasses, and which I think is what
> Alex was talking about (i.e., eventually getting TianoCore to pick
> up and run "boot.efi" as left behind by the vanilla OS X installer).
It's even better than that. The "boot.efi" is part of the installation
meda as well, so we wouldn't have to rely on _any_ external code at all :).
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-29 14:20 UTC|newest]
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2014-01-08 20:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add option to disable FDC from ISA bus and ACPI on i386 Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-08 20:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-08 21:09 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-15 11:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-08 22:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-08 23:39 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-09 0:12 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-09 1:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-09 18:51 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-09 20:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-09 21:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-09 21:58 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-09 21:44 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-10 12:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-10 15:35 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-10 16:13 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-01-17 21:10 ` [Qemu-devel] RFC: ACPI, HPET._CRS, MacOSX vs. WinXP Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-20 11:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-20 11:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-20 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-20 12:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-20 18:54 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-20 20:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-20 21:25 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-21 10:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-21 11:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-21 11:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-21 11:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-21 18:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ACPI: Add IRQ resource to HPET._CRS on Mac OS X Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-21 18:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-24 16:46 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-24 21:18 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-25 0:09 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-25 9:08 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-27 22:51 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-27 23:51 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-28 16:45 ` [Qemu-devel] OSX guest support review Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-28 16:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-29 14:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 21:36 ` [Qemu-devel] OSX guest vs. kvm ioapic polarity Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-29 22:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-30 14:18 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-30 19:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-30 20:21 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-30 20:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-30 20:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-30 20:44 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-11 18:23 ` RFC: ioapic polarity vs. qemu os-x guest Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-11 18:23 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-11 19:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-11 19:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-11 21:35 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-11 21:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-14 21:13 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-14 21:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-14 21:21 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-14 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2014-02-14 22:06 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-14 22:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-14 22:13 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-14 22:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2014-02-16 11:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 11:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 11:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 14:47 ` Alex Williamson
2014-02-16 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2014-02-16 16:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 16:23 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-17 17:57 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-17 17:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-17 18:01 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-17 18:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-17 18:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 18:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 19:38 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-17 19:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-18 0:58 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-18 0:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-27 17:05 ` [PATCH RFC] kvm: ignore apic polarity Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-27 17:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-27 21:41 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-27 21:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-27 22:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 23:13 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-27 23:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-27 23:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 23:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-28 4:06 ` [RFC PATCH v2] kvm: x86: ignore ioapic polarity Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-28 4:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-28 17:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qemu: " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-28 18:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-28 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: x86: report lapic version as 0x14 instead of 0x11 Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-03-01 3:44 ` Alexander Graf
2014-03-01 4:25 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-03-01 5:45 ` Alexander Graf
2014-03-01 14:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-02 0:17 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-03-02 8:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-02 14:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-02 16:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-06 7:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-02 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2] qemu: x86: ignore ioapic polarity Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-02 16:15 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-03-02 17:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-06 7:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-02 14:55 ` [RFC PATCH v2] kvm: " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-02 14:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-13 10:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-13 10:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-13 13:43 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-03-13 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-02-28 4:55 ` [PATCH RFC] kvm: ignore apic polarity Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-28 4:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-28 8:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-28 8:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-28 8:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-28 8:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-01 5:03 ` Alex Williamson
2014-03-01 5:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2014-02-16 11:34 ` RFC: ioapic polarity vs. qemu os-x guest Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 15:12 ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-16 11:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-16 11:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-29 23:13 ` [Qemu-devel] OSX guest vs. kvm ioapic polarity Alexander Graf
2014-01-30 15:56 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-28 20:40 ` [Qemu-devel] osx bootloader Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-28 22:51 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-01-29 3:07 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-29 11:29 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-01-29 14:53 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-29 15:00 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-30 0:15 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-02-01 17:43 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-02-01 0:38 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-02-01 10:07 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-01 14:35 ` [Qemu-devel] OVMF with q35 (was: osx bootloader) BALATON Zoltan
2014-02-01 15:13 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-01 17:38 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-02-03 7:47 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-02-01 21:19 ` [Qemu-devel] osx bootloader Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-02 2:18 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-01-29 12:10 ` BALATON Zoltan
2014-01-29 14:20 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2014-01-21 11:38 ` [Qemu-devel] RFC: ACPI, HPET._CRS, MacOSX vs. WinXP Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-20 20:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-01-20 12:03 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-01-09 8:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add option to disable FDC from ISA bus and ACPI on i386 Markus Armbruster
2014-01-09 10:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-31 19:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2] Add option to switch off FDC Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-01-31 19:39 ` Eric Blake
2014-02-02 13:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-10 14:10 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
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