grub-efi x86_64 on macbook air?

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Hey, while investigating possibilities on how it might be possible to
install/run something "wubi" like on macs (without having windows
installed) I ran into a couple of issues. I post here mainly in hope
that one of the folks that actually wrote the code for this or at
least have experience with it read this, cause most ppl on irc (while
being very helpful) seem to know more about the pure x86/bios/linux
side of things.

Besides some (minor?) issues like that the command line
freezes/becomes unresponsive after a (relatively short) amount of time
and the fact that booting back to OS X (which everyone says should
work 100%) does not work at all (it complains that it can't find the
specified os x *efi, but it is there, and search correctly finds the
right drive) my biggest problem right now is the following:

I got some kerne/initrd combo to boot (2.6.26 from debian lenny
netinstall iirc) but it gets to the language selection screen, first
thing you notice, the keyboard is dead. I supplied "init=/bin/sh" to
be able to read at least the last of the error messages. As it turns
out to me it seems that seemingly everything pci-related is
unavailable. Error messages are as follows:

[time after boot]PCI No IRQ known for interrup pin C of device
0000:00:1a.7. Please Try using pci=biosirq
[time after boot]ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7 Found HC with no IRQ. Check
BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1a.7 setup!
[time after boot]ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7 fail, -19
(of course time/device ids and pins (A-D) changed, but otherwise they
were the same I think)
I tried supplying pci=biosirq although I didn't think it would work,
and it didn't, or some solution for a similiar issue from the debian
wiki for the macbook (using a usb keyboard) which didn't work either.
The usb keyboard works for refit and grub, but not once booted into
linux. On some other wiki page it was suggested to supply "noapic
acpi=force" and maybe "irqpoll" which I tried in various combinations
without a change.

The machine I use for testing this is a first generation macbook air.
Now while there are numerous reports about people running linux on it
(pretty well actually) by providing it with a legacy bios environment,
I didn't find a report about one running grub-efi on it successfully
to boot linux. The most relevant posts my searches come up with are my
own posts on the ubunutu forums.

So, I'm not sure who is to blame here, or if it's maybe just my own
fault, but I decided that it would be nice to get the
opinion/solutions? of some ppl who might be more intimately familiar
with the workings of the mac boot firmware etc. and maybe know if this
actually has been tested and should work, or not.

Thanks for an help in advance.