Re: Interrupts needed by LILO

[M Carling]

> > Well, that was a property to OF that I was unaware of. What I like about
> > OF is the Forth code, the device tree and that is is a standard.
> Agreed. I guess I'm just cranky because I think OpenFirmware is limping
> because their mission is limited to "like the PC BIOS, only cleaner and
> interpreted". This means they don't provide compelling value to the
> hardware vendor who only cares about x86. So it's no wonder the PC market
> ignores them and it's the SPARCs and Macintoshes that use OpenFirmware.
> If OpenBIOS wants to go the OpenFirmware route, that would actually speed
> adoption among some groups, as the NetBSD guys have quite a bit of
> experience already using OF drivers to boot their kernel.

Good point, Todd. If OpenBIOS is OpenFirmware compliant, no one will
shake their head, throw up their arms, or accuse us of being non-standard.
If OpenBIOS is not OpenFirmware complaint, we need to have some really
compelling reasons.

M