* Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> [130526 15:02]:
As mentioned previously on-list, OpenBIOS currently contains two consoles - a C based console and a Forth based console. The Forth based console is currently broken, but is more feature complete than the C console, whilst also being more portable across different architectures.
This patchset performs the following functions:
- Fix various bugs in the Forth console - Optimise performance using low-level C graphics routines - Add simple IEEE1275-like initialisers for TCX and VGA graphics - Switch TCX and VGA drivers over to use the new console using the standard is-install word
Once this patchset is committed, a further patchset will follow to remove all of the duplicate C console code, remove packages/video.c and unify the console input/routines into libopenbios.
This is fantastic! Thank you! Stefan