Bug#369655: patch to make grub work on Intel Macs

[Otavio Salvador]

[ Keith: as I told you in the mail that I sent to you earlier today,
  this user provided a patch to allow us to use grub in Intel based Macs
  and I'm interested to get it in. Can you test it? ]

Tino Keitel <tino.keitel at web.de> writes:

> the stock Grub doesn't work on Intel based Macs. This is discussed in
> https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7554&tstart=0 and I
> also attached a patch for grub 0.97, which builds fine here if attached
> before dpkg-buildpackage. With the patch, grub can be used on Intel based
> Macs with updated firmware which contains the BIOS emulation (part of
> Bootcamp).

Hello,

I would like to apply this patch but I'm worried about the possibility
of include regressions on already working hardware. Have you did any
tests in normal hardware to prove it continue to work?

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