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June 1998

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status of openbios
by Alex.Nemirovsky＠radisys.com June 24, 1998

June 24, 1998

Hi All, I am interested in putting in some effort in getting OpenBIOS going. I am a BIOS engineer and see value in GPL'ed BIOS source code. How far is the development so far? What has been talked about? Thanks -Alex

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OpenBIOS and OpenBoot
by Fare Rideau June 9, 1998

June 9, 1998

Dear OpenBIOS people, have you by chance considered the fact that there already exist a cross-platform IEEE standard for firmware? It's called Open Firmware, and allows boot code to run unmodified on a variety of platforms, based on a bytecode ANS FORTH interpreter: * Sun SPARCs (on which it first appeared -- try STOP A someday) * PowerPCs * ARM ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/me/mejohnsn/OFIntro.html http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/ ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/p1275/ http://www.firmworks.com If you write something for PCs, it would be great if it reused this proven, standard, design. And if you need a FORTH core, there already exist lots of them, including PFE, GNU forth (gforth), and many others. http://www.forth.org/ ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub And of course, if you are to use this standard, you should contact the Open Firmware committee, to be in synch with whatever they have done or intend to do about the PC platform... Just my 2p worth. I'm not subscribed to this list in any way, I've just seen an announce on the linux-kernel(a)vger.rutgers.edu mailing list. Hence, if you want to reply me, use private e-mail. Good luck! ## Faré | VN: Ð£ng-Vû Bân | Join the TUNES project! http://www.tunes.org/ ## ## FR: François-René Rideau | TUNES is a Useful, Not Expedient System ## ## Reflection&Cybernethics | Project for a Free Reflective Computing System ## Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

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