[Mactel-linux-users] EFI booting

[Brandon K. <bdk...@gm...>]

I have repeatedly booted a Macbook Pro 3,1 in pure efi mode with very
few problems. 

I used grub-efi and compiled it from latest svn using
./configure --with-platform=efi --target=x86_64. 
Without refit. 

The only big thing that does not work yet is the framebuffer, 
so right now I have no text output until the system is booted. 

I have tried using FB_EFI (which I had expected to not work because it
is a GOP driver), 
imacfb, vesafb and uvesafb. 

Both vesafb and efifb display text, however I get three columns of 
text that is all very small print that is unreadable. 

Has anyone else experienced the same problem, or am I in 
uncharted territory because it is x86_64 and an nvidia graphics card?

I also cannot use pommed because it uses bios calls to change the 
screen brightness. (Everything but brightness works fine, even
applesmc). 
I also tried a kernel backlight driver, macbook_mbp.c however this was 
just ripped off from pommed anyways. 

Any word on this would be a great help. 

Brandon Koepke.