Hello! Did I miss a message or three? I have a copy of the OpenBIOS code, which was checked out from SVN about a month ago.
Upon entering the make command it promptly complains that I need to install the fcode utilities. And provides the instructions for retrieving them from SVN. I do that. It then happens that they do not compile properly on my Slackware system who uses the 3.4.6 variant of GCC. (More later.)