Re: NetBSD on an Apple TV?

["Chris Wareham" <cwareham%visitlondon.com@localhost>]

Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:36:59PM +0100, Chris Wareham wrote:
> > I'm just about to get my hands on an Apple TV, and was wondering whether
> > anyone had attempted to install NetBSD on one of these devices. In
> > principle it should be similar to the Mac Mini, as it has an EFI boot
> > loader, Pentium M processor, IDE hard drive and a USB 2.0 port.
>
>
> The EFI on Apple TV requrires all EFI drivers/applications/loaders to
> be cryptographically signed by Apple.  (However the OS X bootloader
> doesn't have a similar requirements for kernels.)
>
> IMO this is not a hack-friendly platform.
>
>         Jonathan Kollasch

It definitely looks that way. There has been some work at getting a
custom Linux bootloader loaded by the Apple one:

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Linux_on_Apple_TV

But frankly, it doesn't seem to be worth the effort. I think this
particular machine is heading towards eBay.

Chris
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