[geeks] PCI-E video cards

[Mark]

On 11 Mar 2008, at 05:25, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Correct me if I am wrong, but you can only flash Apple EFI ROM onto  
> cards that are very close to something Apple sells.
>
> In other words, you can't flash an nVidia 7900, because Apple never  
> sold one and thus never made a BIOS for it.
>
> At least, that's what I've heard.

When Vista SP1 starts becoming the common distribution of Vista I  
think this may all begin to become a moot point, as it supports EFI  
and thus unblocks the way forward for PC makers to start adopting EFI.  
Apple have demonstrated it's not hard to make EFI backwards  
compatible, also.

At the very least, if newer cards support EFI and x86 then the ROM  
will at least be the right size!


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