Alex Oughton Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Two new firmwares were released on Tuesday for the Mac Pro, one for the EFI, and the other for the SMC. After waiting for the first reviews to trickle in, here's what we know. The EFI update reportedly brings many improvements for Boot Camp, including a fix for hard disk speed issues experienced by many Windows XP users on Mac Pro. The SMC update tweaks fan behavior. This news poster is currently unable to comment on the performance of the new firmware, as the installer is currently incompatible with RAID setups of any kind, a problem reported by many on Apple's official discussion forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Anybody with a EFI equipped non-Apple MoBo ("hackint0sh" .. ) willing to flash his EFI with this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Oughton Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 That would be a very silly thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 That would be a very silly thing to do. .. like hacking the mach_kernel to run on non-Apple PCs .. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 While I wont make a value judgement on the silliness of making the mach_kernel run on standard PC hardware, I will say that flashing Apple's EFI onto an EFI-capable board will ruin that board, possibly permanently. That's pretty obvious. An Aside: I do not believe there is any EFI operating motherboard currently capable of running OS X, the only boards capable of running OS X that are EFI compatible are the Intel boards, and they do not use the EFI framework (at least, not in any way detectable or usable by us). Also, there is no generic EFI flash utility, and, for obvious reasons, the Apple flash utility will not work on a "hackintosh". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Well Flashing Apple EFI onto a board has benn done before but the drivers map to the wrong address on most of the components, so it works but doesnt work. Also the Intel Mobos use a efi framework but they also include a CSM so we are locked out of using that framework. But all the drivers for our onboard devices are in efi , so i wouldnt say it is impossible to run OS X. We lareadyhave the complete specification on our boards we just need to find a way to access it which is what we are working on at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 thanks Kiko for the summary and clarification ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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