From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add apple_set_os command
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 07:46:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C65CCF.7070801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKCeAn8755nOWScuBhhz4TdT0XPpDwBORnnOZjCnn7YyVoFJyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 31.12.2013 00:11, SevenBits wrote:
> On Monday, December 30, 2013, Andreas Heider wrote:
>
> The EFI on current macbooks configures hardware differently depending
> on wether it is booting Mac OS X or a different os, for example
> disabling the internal GPU completely on some models.
>
> Mac OS X identifies itself using a custom EFI protocol.
>
> This adds a command that fakes the os identification, making all
> hardware accessible.
>
>
> Just a question: I do a lot of booting Linux on MacBooks, and I
> frequently suffer from this issue. How do we know that this code
> actually works?
Run on a mac with this code and without and compare results. The ship of
"works by sane design" has long since sailed away. For most
manufacturers it's somewhere in Moon orbit but for apple it has long
since left solar system.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-03 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-30 16:04 [PATCH] Add apple_set_os command Andreas Heider
2013-12-30 23:11 ` SevenBits
2013-12-31 5:19 ` Andreas Heider
2014-01-03 6:46 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2014-01-03 17:26 ` SevenBits
2014-01-03 18:38 ` SevenBits
2014-01-07 15:19 ` andreas
2014-01-07 23:04 ` SevenBits
2014-01-07 13:38 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-07 14:46 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-01-07 14:58 ` andreas
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2014-11-13 6:57 Michael Marineau
2015-04-09 10:50 Bruno Bierbaumer
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