rEFIt finally updated in Debian
After nearly two years stuck with rEFIt 0.7 in Debian, I’ve uploaded rEFIt 0.11 to unstable today.
There’s been a bit of work done on the package, on rEFIt itself and on the tools that come with rEFIt. I’ve also added some (useful, I hope) documentation.
This version of rEFIt supports all Intel Macs to date.
rEFIt in Debian comes with gptsync, both as a Unix command-line tool and as an EFI application. It’s the only tool shipped in the package. The other tools available in the rEFIt binary distribution by upstream (the EFI Shell and utilities) come from the TianoCore project and aren’t available in Debian. See the README.Debian in rEFIt if you want the full story.
Also rEFIt in Debian lacks the machine shutdown feature for now; this feature is part of the EFI 1.10 spec which isn’t supported by gnu-efi yet, though I have also worked on updating gnu-efi for EFI 1.10 and sent this upstream. Filesystem drivers are also affected by this and, as such, are unavailable too.
If you’re interested in the gory details, see the changelog and patches.