Run Haiku, Linux or BSD on new intel iMacs?

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Seems one hurdle to running any alt-os on the intel iMacs is the intel EFI which replaces the older BIOS. Well there is already a Linux EFI boot loader on Source Forge, so that shouldn’t take long for open-source OS maintainers to create one for their OS. Another hurdle might be the graphics chipset.

The iMac uses the ATI Radeon X1600 using PCIe and the MacBook Pro uses the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, so it’s just a matter of getting driver support added for those chips, in the meantime VESA mode should work. Haiku would be tripped up by the lack of SATA support, but I’m sure they’ll have SATA support before they finish R1.

9:44 am

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