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> As for OSX I'm not familiar with the boot process. Basically a mix of UEFI and their proprietary SMC controller on the system board. The SMC is actually kin
by dabockster 9y ago
> As for OSX I'm not familiar with the boot process.
Basically a mix of UEFI and their proprietary SMC controller on the system board.
The SMC is actually kind of nice to have since it means that the actual boot sector is more sandboxed.
- bogomipz 9y ago>"The SMC is actually kind of nice to have since it means that the actual boot sector is more sandboxed." Can you elaborate on this? How does the boot sector sandboxing work exactly?
- dabockster 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Controller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Controller It's primary purpose is largely DRM, but I'm guessing it has to store a large portion of boot information on the chip as to prevent a Mac drive from booting in a standard x86 tower.
- bogomipz 9y agoThanks, yeah I'm familiar with the SMC but this is the first I've heard of it in the context of boot sectors. There wasn't much in the wikipedia link about that. Also the primary purpose of an SMC is not DRM, but battery, fans, power management etc.