Re: [OpenBIOS] [ANNOUNCE] New FCode Suite available!

[David L Paktor]

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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
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> From:
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> Stefan Reinauer
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> Reply-To:
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> The OpenBIOS Mailinglist
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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

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
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