I've managed to install Solaris on an iMac with the bootcamp bits.
The most significant hurdles were conquered when Juergen Keil enabled
both multiboot and GRUB to work in a i8042 free system. That work is
covered by:
6412224 GRUB hangs when no i8042 is present
6412226 multiboot hangs when no i8042 is present
Thanks Juergen!!
The next hurdle is that the Solaris fdisk doesn't interact all that well
with the bootcamp prepared disk. I hacked around this by hand and am still
gathering information to file the appropriate bug (with workaround). I'll
follow up when the bug is filed.
The nic works with the yukonx driver from Marvell, even if it is a
bit chatty.
X works reasonably well with the VESA driver (thanks to bootcamp
supplying a VGA BIOS).
Lastly the sata controller works in legacy emulation but suffers from
the simplex causes us to fall back to PIO performance issue
(5031379). The usual hacks help, but real sata support would help
more.
Now on to EFI and UGA....
-jan
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