[coreboot] coreboot utilities on MacOSX

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Sep 1 15:34:40 CEST 2009


Gregg Levine wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Stefan Reinauer<stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a weekend project I had been porting coreboot utilities to Mac OS X.
>>
>> I put up a new set of installer images, source code and patches to
>>
>> http://www.coresystems.de/~stepan/OSX/
>>
>> The order of installation should be:
>> - DirectIO 1.1
>> - pciutils 3.1.4
>> - coreboot-utils 1.0
>>
>> All packages are both 32bit and 64bit and they have been tested on Mac
>> OS X 10.6.
>>
>> Feedback is welcome!
>>
>> Stefan
>>
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>>     
>
> Hello!
> I am decidedly impressed. Those are well needed. Next question have
> they been tested against the next latest version of OS/X?
>
> There's some controversy raging regarding a user space program not
> running properly on this big cat, as it no longer does everything that
> it did before.
>   
OS X 10.6 is the "latest and greatest". In fact, the binaries didn't
work very well on an OS X 10.5.8 installation, but the source can be
easily compiled on 10.5.x and 10.4.x by removing the x86_64 stuff from
DirectIO's Xcode project file.

Stefan




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