I can confirm that grub-efi from svn will load a 2.6.26 kernel on a macbook pro 3,1. (The one with the nvidia graphics card). I did not have to add any custom options, and the graphics card works with accelerated graphics. (Same xorg.conf loads fine). There are two problems, however. The first is that the framebuffer does not work. It does load and print text; however, it is as though it thinks the screen size is 800x640 and attempts to "stretch" the screen. What results is an unusable framebuffer. Combinations of different options with both vesafb, efifb, and uvesafb makes no difference. (Correct me if I'm wrong). The second is that EFI does not map the graphics card memory the same as with bios. Therefore some of the registers are missing that are required for pommed to work. Basically this means that I have no backlight control. Everything else with pommed works. I have not tried the intrepid beta, which apparently has a HAL implementation of the backlight control; however, I fear that it uses the same codebase as pommed.
oss_test_launchpad My macbook pro boots to the desktop in 30 seconds; however, I have no indication about the boot sequence with EFI. The reason that the macbook pro bugs take so long to get looked after is because they are usually not fixed upstream. If upstream is going to fix the bugs in the future, then why waste the time here? Adding ELILO to the installation process would also greatly increase the complexity of ubiquity, and this would generate quite a few more bugs. Since the generic installer works already on macbooks why would they bother until EFI support is more solid. Correct me if I'm wrong. -- Hardy, Intrepid Alpha 2+ take 30 seconds to start boot sequence on MacBook / Pro https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
