On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:25 PM, chuck remes wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Mark Eaton writes:
says that the partition format is different for Macs running on
Intel
processors.
Is there any more detailed info/documentation available on what
specifically is different?
I imagine it would depend on what sort of firmware they are using in
their x86 box. I don't have a transition kit, so I'm just
guessing.
If they go with a standard Wintel BIOS, then it would be a standard
X86 Wintel "fdisk" partition table. If they go with EFI, then it
would
be the EFI scheme (called GFI I think).
See http://www.opendarwin.org/en/articles/booting_on_x86/
index.html#partitioning
for what Darwin/x86 uses.
I didn't make it to WWDC this year but rumor has it the transition
boxes are using a standard BIOS therefore the partition table is
the fdisk format just like current OpenDarwin releases. I don't
think Apple has been explicit in their real choice for what will
eventually ship. Hopefully they'll communicate that to us within
the next few months.
Correct. We realize there are lots of folks that need to know what
is going to be in the ROMs on these new machines, and what
partition scheme will be used. Unfortunately, we are not yet in a
position to make that information available, but we will
communicate it as soon as we reasonably can. Don't assume that
what you see in the transition boxes represents what will be
present in the final product.
I'm cautiously hoping for EFI as the firmware.
The general consensus I've heard from other developers is:
1) They don't want us to use BIOS
2) If they haven't heard of EFI, they want us to use OF
3) If they have heard of EFI, they want us to use EFI
This is not a statement about what Apple will use, just what I've
heard from developers that have an opinion on the subject.
Hang in there...
- Dean
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