Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> wrote:
...you will find that being able to bless boot directories, and (as above) perform firmware updates will be some nice* functionality to have.
Thus it seems that the Apple hardware hasn't been reverse engineered sufficiently for these functions to be implemented in Linux. I suppose we should be impressed that Linux runs on it at all, since Apple are reputedly not very open about their hardware anymore, and in fact they haven't been open about it for a long time. I remember the days when there were only a few genuinely Apple IIE compatible machines available, such as the Laser 128, as I think it was called. Most of the other supposedly "compatible" machines failed to be truly indistinguishable from the original, and some of the software I used at the time was notoriously effective at uncovering flaws in the less competently designed "clones". I started using Apple II machines soon after learning to type in primary school.