Hi,
I am new to the project and had a few questions. I have browsed around the OpenBIOS web site, to get an idea of what is going on and where its at. Looking at the 'progress' page I see that the work currently seems to be focused on the Forth core engine and the Forth base dictionary. As to the other projects there is no information, other than being at 0%. Has any one already suggested a direction for these projects and what they expect from them? For example, the user interface in all open firmware solutions I have seen so far (Sun boxes and Apple Macs, with new world ROM) all have a command line interface. Would it be conceivable to add a PC BIOS style GUI, in addition to the CLI for 'high-level' configuration.
In addition, while doing a search on the web I came up with the following documents that might be useful - I hope none of them cause issue:
From the Apple site:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1044.html http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1062.html
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/pci/index.html - bottom: "Forth for Open Firmware Basics" tutorial presentations. Other stuff may be of interest.
Elsewhere:
http://homepage.mac.com/potswa/source/ http://people.cornell.edu/pages/ak234/BootSafe/main.htm http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbForth/
http://www.openppc.org/software.html - some references to open firmware
http://www.software-x.com/software-x/bios.html
regards
André-John