[OpenBIOS] FCODE Evaluator

Stefan Reinauer stepan at openbios.org
Mon Sep 13 12:45:56 CEST 2004


* Stefan Reinauer <stepan at openbios.org> [040913 11:17]:
> * Swamy at soc-soft.com <Swamy at soc-soft.com> [040909 14:50]:
> > My question is:
> > 
> > 1. Will the kernel take care of inserting this PCI Driver and mapping
> > the device? Or else do we need to build some evaluator for this?
>  
> The PCI driver is currently incomplete. It does not correctly enable 
> PCI option roms yet. This means the evaluator is already there and
> it works (with some bugs probably, since it has not been extensively
> tested) But you do _not_ need to write an evaluator yourself.
> 
> If you get the latest OpenBIOS snapshot from
> http://www.openbios.org/snapshots/ you can have a look at the code in 
> openbios/drivers/pci.[c|h|fs] for the PCI driver and
> openbios/forth/device/feval.fs for the FCode evaluator (byte-load)

See also the following issue in the issue tracker:

     https://openbios.org/roundup/openbios/issue1




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