Re: uefi boot on Apple Mac

2014-05-24 Thread Rafael Espíndola
On 24 May 2014 19:30, Huang Wen Hui wrote: > Hi, > I try this patch, but no lucky, loader stop at: > > Start @ 0x802d6ef0 ... Yes, I got that in the mac laptops I tried, it worked on a Mac Pro. It might be the frame buffer corruption that Ed Maste was mentioning. Cheers, Rafael _

Re: [patch] Switch to text mode during efi boot

2014-05-22 Thread Rafael Espíndola
> Great, thank you Rafael. There's framebuffer corruption issues on > some other hardware as well, so it may be that the eventual fix for > those will also solve the MBP issue. Awesome! >> Some design questions: >> >> * Why do we have both boot1 and loader? It is just the issue with >> building

Re: uefi boot on Apple Mac

2014-05-22 Thread Rafael Espíndola
I just emailed a patch. The issue I was having was just that the text was not being displayed. On 22 May 2014 09:37, Anders Bolt-Evensen wrote: > MacBookPro8,3 doesn't work with uefi boot either. > At least mine doesn't. > > On 19.05.14 02:36, Huang Wen Hui wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I test uefi boot on

[patch] Switch to text mode during efi boot

2014-05-22 Thread Rafael Espíndola
The attached patch causes both boot1 and loader.efi to switch to text mode. This only seems to make a difference on Macs where otherwise no information was being displayed. The ConsoleControl.h file is copied from EdkCompatibilityPkg/Foundation/Protocol/ConsoleControl in https://github.com/tianoco