Re: Macbook support for Debian Etch.
Otavio Salvador wrote:
> "Gustavo Franco" <stratus@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> [ Please CC: me, since i'm not subscribed to this list ]
>>
>> Is anybody working on Macbook support for Debian Etch in kernel? I've
>> looked around and it seems that we need some kernel patches and use
>> lilo or grub2 to boot over EFI.
>
> elilo has support for it and grub now has support using Bootcamp
> updated firmware.
current grub and not grub2, right?
>> Since i don't have the hardware, i asked Ryan to test the current
>> Debian testing
>> images[2] to send us a detailed report. He told me that he can't do
>> that now, because
>> he's using the laptop as his primary machine. Feedback from somebody
>> else is welcome.
>>
>> [0] = http://desrt.mcmaster.ca/macbook.xhtml
>> [1] = http://archives.free.net.ph/list/ubuntu-kernel-team.en.html
>> [2] = http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> Apart of it, looks like current hardware is supported.
Sounds good, but anybody in the kernel team wants to merge these patches in
our tree?
thanks,
Gustavo Franco - <stratus@debian.org>
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