Alessandro17 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 if this really works. i buy intel board straigh away ^^ I own one already: Intel D945GNTLKR. Every component of my present computer was very carefully chosen in order to be as OS X compatible as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorqueX86 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I own one already: Intel D945GNTLKR. Every component of my present computer was very carefully chosen in order to be as OS X compatible as possible. Does your board support Core2Duo processors? Listening to Intel it shouldnt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Does your board support Core2Duo processors? Listening to Intel it shouldnt... It doesn't indeed. I bought it in April. At some stage next year I'll buy one which supports OS X and Core 2 (Duo or Quad). At the moment one of the best should be the Bad Axe 2 (D975XBX2) Bofors is our in-house hardware expert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorqueX86 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 It doesn't indeed. I bought it in April. At some stage next year I'll buy one which supports OS X and Core 2 (Duo or Quad). At the moment one of the best should be the Bad Axe 2 (D975XBX2) Bofors is our in-house hardware expert the problem is that I need a micro-atx form factor. I use an original Apple G5 case for my machine. Also, does the MaacEFI preclude the possibility to overclock-tweak? In case, is it possible to have it as a software-only loader in order to preserve BIOS settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Also, does the MaacEFI preclude the possibility to overclock-tweak? In case, is it possible to have it as a software-only loader in order to preserve BIOS settings? I don't know the answers, to be honest, but this project is still highly experimental. I expect that by the first stable release we'll know a lot more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 hmm, we should still be able to preserve your boards OverClocking features, but this is yet to be seen. Wait until the first release and then we will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_defiant Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Kiko: when can we expect a release? will it be soon? I don't want to annoy anyone, just that's not very obvious what and when we should expect! Any piece of information would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'm unsure were as to post this, but I was going to update the BIOS on my Abit board and when I was looking at the guide there is a section for three different cases; Award, AMI and EFI.... does anyone know of an Abit board that can handle EFI? http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/guide.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Well AMI has there own imp of EFI, with a csm on top. So Abit might be efi compatible but it is in the same boat as our intel boards with the CSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Well we are working on it, slowly, its a bit hard as everyone is in different time zones but we are getting it done slowly. When its time its time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 (edited) Anyone who knows what this project, and the project to boot Apple's firmware on EFI boards propose is very excited and hopeful for releases. I wish I knew the current developments, but perhaps there's reason for discretion (?) regarding that. I don't know of any release projections, but I am hopeful for this spring I'm sure people noticed, but- https://www.tianocore.org/ January 11, 2007A special thanks to Tristan Gingold for porting the Nt32 Simulator code to Unix! This exciting new Package in EDK II enables people on Linux and other Unix Operating Systems to compile and run an EFI simulator. Please get the latest EDK II code from the subversion repository to try it out for yourself! More information is in the BuildNotes.txt for the EDK II project. Edited January 23, 2007 by frizbot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermegatron Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 On intel itanuim boards you can flash the efi firmware from windows using iflash64 it basically flashes the efi partition to the firmware. Assuming that can be down on a regular board could one flash your efi modules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I'd assume that once Microsoft releases an EFI-compatible OS ("a subsequent Windows Vista release will support UEFI" - microsoft.com), the motherboard manufacturers will enable EFI as a feature, especially since they'd have had more time to develop their implementations. Other than that page tomtefar found, I can't find anything about ABIT and EFI. I'd assume that these companies would have to have some internal way of easily disabling the CSM for debugging purposes, but knowing how requires some access, and I'm sure its not an easy jumper setting. Really difficult to buy motherboards without knowing which are EFI compatible. MacEFIx86 plans for EFI partitions etc, but a built-in fallback position is always comforting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Yeah, when microsoft supports UEFi it will easy as efi should become accesible, if u want to buy a board, just get a intel made one. as long as its >945G chipset, it will be Framework based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo50 Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 the problem is that I need a micro-atx form factor. I use an original Apple G5 case for my machine. you have only one choice at the moment Intel D945GCL. it support conroe, but only 2 DDR slots =(( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 So is there going to be a 0.3 release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I didn't want to ask. I figured they could be waiting for 10.5, since Apple could do more to break compatibility if MacEFIx86 "shows it's cards first". The motherboards are difficult, and I'll wait on them for now. IIRC there's only that micro-atx board that has conroe support and the 945 chipset.The 965 chipset boards work poorly with OS X currently. The current 975 chipset boards don't have integrated video, which can be invaluable for getting video in OS X86 when available PCIE cards aren't working. I believe I'll be waiting a short while for more choices from Intel, and I haven't checked 3rd party support (I'd like EFI support instead). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 CHeck the "BIOS" size first. The EFI capable board has at least 8Mb Flash ROM (1Megabytes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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