On 29/07/2019 15:34, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
OpenBIOS is not OpenHackWare but seems to be equally incomplete, patchy and rely on random hacks. Trying to clean it up and implement missing stuff seems to be as complex as rewriting OpenFirmware. Given all OpenBIOS's missing features and non-existing developer comunity with only limited resources to improve it I wonder if we should try to move on to OpenFirmware instead eventually to at least have a complete OF implementation so we only need to care about porting that to QEMU and adding Apple specific stuff and not to implement OF itself. Apparently this was already done for QEMU prep a few years ago:
I find this attitude unhelpful and disrespectful to the people who have worked on OpenBIOS over the years, some of whom are still on this mailing list.
Certainly OpenBIOS can be improved in certain areas, but please keep the discussion on a technical level rather than making sweeping accusations about the state of the project.
ATB,
Mark.