Installer kernel command-line options

[Scott D. Davilla]

>I take it that 'boot.efi' isn't easily redistributable however?
>

"boot.efi" is a gray area, one needs the specific "boot.efi" that the 
AppleTV uses, others from Intel Mac desktop boxs will not work as the 
AppleTV EFI firmware does and integrity check which includes checking 
encoded certificates.

As an owner of an AppleTV, one has the perfect right to have the 
file. This includes extracting it from an downloadable AppleTV update 
from an Apple update server. Bundling it with a download or install 
is the gray area.

This is similar to ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper is a wireless driver for 
broadcom device that wraps a Windows driver to provide a wireless 
driver under Linux for broadcom devices. The integration of the 
Windows driver has to happen under the user side as ndiswrapper 
cannot distribute the Windows driver.

Now, Apple has said very shortly after releasing the AppleTV that 
they don't care what you do with it, it's your hardware, just mind 
the warrantee (ie. if you open it and it breaks, too bad). I'm not 
sure how they would react to a request to re-distribute this file. I 
am a "Select" Apple developer, been one for about 15 years. I could 
send a request up the "proper channels" and see what happens.