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by muyuu 5230 days ago
Runs GNU/Linux on it too:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/4
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kzrdude 5230 days ago
It looks to me like he is using BIOS emulation on the mac, so he gets an IDE interface instead of using AHCI which I get on my efi-booted air.
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xxpor 5230 days ago
What would be the advantage of that, other than devo/testing purposes?
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kzrdude 5229 days ago
He's literally complaining that apple's firmware does not init the hardware properly. If he's using the legacy BIOS boot, that's a fair assessment of that mode, but it's still not the standard way to boot the computer.
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