Open Firmware / Forth

[William DUCK]

Hello,

I would want to rewrite an Open Firmware with Ficl or Factor. Will this be 
possible ?

SLOF :

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-expert5/

Ficl :

http://ficl.sourceforge.net/

Factor :

http://factorcode.org/

Here is quote from a previous mail to one of the SLOF's developer :
> I know that Slimline OpenFirmware is written in Forth. Could Factor (
> http://factorcode.org/ ) be  a good alternative , or haskell ?

Open Firmware requires Forth, and Forth is a great fit to the
specific requirements of a boot firmware anyway.  Any language
that needs garbage collection of any sort is right out, completely
unsuitable.

Thank you for your answer,

Best Regards,

Will

[Stefan Reinauer]

Dear Mr. Duck ;-)
> I would want to rewrite an Open Firmware with Ficl or Factor. Will this be 
> possible ?

Depends on what your requirements are. Possible is always everything as
long as you are willing to change enough code ;)

Since there is soon half a dozen open source openfirmware, the question
is: Do you _really_ want to reinvent the wheel another time.

I saw your requests to the LinuxBIOS mailinglist and other lists before,
asking interesting questions and never coming up with anything after
that, so I keep this really short. If you are serious with your attempt
come back with more detailed questions rather than a list of links.
> Open Firmware requires Forth, and Forth is a great fit to the
> specific requirements of a boot firmware anyway.  Any language
> that needs garbage collection of any sort is right out, completely
> unsuitable.

In practice, this is pretty much true.
> Thank you for your answer,

well, .. Dont know what to say...

Stefan