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> Subject:
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> [OpenBIOS] [ANNOUNCE] New FCode Suite available!
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> Date:
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> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:29:14 +0200
>
> From:
>
> Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
>
> Reply-To:
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> The OpenBIOS Mailinglist <openbios@lists.openbios.org>
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> To:
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> openbios@lists.openbios.org
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> Dear OpenBIOS community,
>
> today I am very glad to announce a new version of the OpenBIOS FCode
> utilities toke and detok. David Paktor, of the IBM corporation,
> contributed a couple of significant improvements over the old versions
> of those utilities.
>
> Toke and Detok now have a comprehensive regression test suite
> of over 170 tests. This test suite makes it easy to verify
> that new contributions do not break existing functionality.
>
> * among the new features:
>
> - detailed error reporting
> - local value support! See
> http://www.openbios.org/fcodesuite/Documents/TokenizerLocalValues.htm
> - much better handling of PCI option roms
> - improved compatibility to other tokenizers
> - bug fixes in flow control and string escape handling
>
> Please be sure to check the complete list of new features at:
> http://www.openbios.org/fcodesuite/Documents/TokenizerNewFeatures.htm
>
> I want to send a big THANK YOU out to David Paktor at this point.
>
> NOTE: The contributed changes are not in the main repository yet.
> You can download the changed source code and binaries as well as the
> test suite and test results as well as documentation from:
> http://www.openbios.org/development/fcode.html
>
> Please send any feedback to this mailing list.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan Reinauer
>
>
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And thank you, Stefan, for your kind words and for the contribution you made initiating and maintaining
this project and web-site.
I would like to make two small amendments:
The test suite contains exactly 162 tests. Still a lot, but let's not mis-advertise even to a small degree.
Modesty prohibits me from saying much more than this, but I hope a look at the New Features document,
and at the Test Log files, will suffice to demonstrate that "a couple of significant improvements"
is very much an understatement... ;-}
That being said, let me again express my gratitude for the opportunity to make this contribution to the
Open Firmware community.
My goal was to create a truly professional-grade tool; I look forward to finding out whether I have achieved it.
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David L. Paktor System Firmware Developer
System and Technology Group Global Firmware Division
dlpaktor@us.ibm.com David L Paktor/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS
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