Hello Zoltan, hey list,
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 07:15:21PM +0100, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
... For forth commands I've found this page useful (not sure if this is linked from somewhere): http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html
Thank you, I found this (and more) last week. The OLPC sites are the best for me:
1: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Firmware 2: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons 3: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cross_Compiling_Open_Firmware
... This is a bit confusing. There are multiple implementations of the IEEE standard (commonly referred to as Open Firmware) and one of these is also called Open Firmware. These are listed under Implementations on the left of the page at www.openfirmware.info. Another implementation used by QEMU for
Yes and I looked at them. But they are either very old or not usable for ppc (too much work to implement a new arch).
... talking about Open Firmware: the standard or the implementation with the same name.
One thing is left which confuses me: In wikipedia and you say, that you use the name "Open Firmware" (also, besides as name for a standard) for an implementation. OK. But the website gives the impression (and G 3 says), that the implementation has the name "OpenBIOS"... So I have two statements which don't fit well. Please remember that I am new to this and did not live through the history.
... Actually running OpenBIOS on real hardware is not something that is well tested (I'm not sure if it was ever tried but I think it wasn't done recently) so if you try to do that be prepared for likely needing some
The OLPC project did it, e.g.
fixing. This is true for any implementation that does not support the hardware you want to run it on, then you likely need to port it.
That there will be the need for porting was clear.
... it's enough to have the basics in there. Not sure how much up to date is this but this is discussed in the kernel documentation here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt
Thank you, I missed this source.
As for giving the device tree to OpenBIOS I think it should just know it or construct it from discovering the hardware as the point of the device tree is to describe the hardware for the operating system so the firmware should know the hardware and provide the device tree. It does not get it from
The "firmware" is our handmade init-assemblercode. It has to enable the machine (beginning from Adam...) to run C-code in its RAM.
If there is no software-interface, then we provide the device-tree maybe in forth or in a blob. Just thinking loudly.
... In fact OpenBIOS does not have that many drivers but maybe the basics are there, only the platform specific init code might need to be adapted for a
That would be very nice. We give it a try. Maybe with help from you / the list.
new board. For ppc these would be in arch/ppc. Running on QEMU is quite a bit simpler as we can skip a lot of init code (such as memory controller or other hardware) so maybe these are not well implemented or buggy as they were not tested with real hardware for a while. ...
Did you use OpenBIOS in a recent qemu and have you been able to remote-debug it there? I was able to load and run the old OpenBIOS code (from svn repo) on "qemu-system-ppc".
Thank you for your time and suggestions, greetings, Michael