Hi all,
SUN has released (under BSD license I believe), the source code for their OpenBoot (OPB). This includes the forth programs for many of their sun machines.
This is available only starting from version 1.3 of OpenSPARC.
http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.net/download_hw.html
I guess that it could be a good boost on the functionality/code available at OpenBios.
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SUN has released (under BSD license I believe), the source code for their OpenBoot (OPB). This includes the forth programs for many of their sun machines.
The mode of operation in this version is that OBP talks to a hypervisor, it does not access hardware directly. So for example the low level code could be used in making OpenBIOS run on top of the hypervisor, but would this be useful? Higher level code could be used elsewhere, but I'm no Forth expert.
The hypervisor sources are very Niagara-specific.
Actually I don't know what to do with this otherwise very nice package.
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That sucks, I guess that Sun only released the OpenSPARC version. In that version, the hardware implements the hypervisor (sun4v).
On Oct 10, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
SUN has released (under BSD license I believe), the source code for their OpenBoot (OPB). This includes the forth programs for many of their sun machines.
The mode of operation in this version is that OBP talks to a hypervisor, it does not access hardware directly. So for example the low level code could be used in making OpenBIOS run on top of the hypervisor, but would this be useful? Higher level code could be used elsewhere, but I'm no Forth expert.
The hypervisor sources are very Niagara-specific.
Actually I don't know what to do with this otherwise very nice package.
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Jose Renau wrote:
That sucks, I guess that Sun only released the OpenSPARC version. In that version, the hardware implements the hypervisor (sun4v).
mitch bradley has already ported it to OLPC.
I think it's useful stuff. Mitch, did I miss anything?
ron
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
Jose Renau wrote:
That sucks, I guess that Sun only released the OpenSPARC version. In that version, the hardware implements the hypervisor (sun4v).
mitch bradley has already ported it to OLPC.
I think it's useful stuff. Mitch, did I miss anything?
ron
What I ported to OLPC was the FirmWorks Open Firmware, which shares a lot of core code with OBP (all of which I wrote).
Sun and FirmWorks are planning to release a *lot* more stuff Real Soon Now. Within weeks. Stay tuned.
Did you need to add code to x86 kernel to use open firmware interface?
YH
On 10/10/06, Mitch Bradley wmb@firmworks.com wrote:
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
Jose Renau wrote:
That sucks, I guess that Sun only released the OpenSPARC version. In that version, the hardware implements the hypervisor (sun4v).
mitch bradley has already ported it to OLPC.
I think it's useful stuff. Mitch, did I miss anything?
ron
What I ported to OLPC was the FirmWorks Open Firmware, which shares a lot of core code with OBP (all of which I wrote).
Sun and FirmWorks are planning to release a *lot* more stuff Real Soon Now. Within weeks. Stay tuned.
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