[OpenBIOS] x86 ISA binding for open firmware

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Mitch Bradley <wmb at firmworks.com> [070315 04:40]:
> 
> 
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> >Such a document has not been written yet. If you are interested, I can
> >grant you wiki access and we can try set up such a document as a
> >proposal for the working group. 
  
> Yes, we should do that.

What things have to be covered?

* memory management
* device tree
* client interface specifics
* user interface specifics (are there any?) 
* x86 assembler?

> >Mitch, do you know about any preliminary documents or de facto standards
> >here?
> >  
> There was a document at one point, but I can't find it.
> 
> The other users of OFW on x86 probably don't care very much what we do; 
> there is little opportunity for sharing.

If it ends up being a good documentation of how OFW works, then that's
not a bad thing as well.


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