[OpenBIOS] r624 - trunk/openbios-devel/forth/system

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 11/20/09 11:40 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 20:09 +0100, svn at openbios.org a écrit :
>   
>> Author: stepan
>> Date: 2009-11-20 20:09:04 +0100 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009)
>> New Revision: 624
>>
>> Modified:
>>    trunk/openbios-devel/forth/system/ciface.fs
>> Log:
>> In the IEEE 1275-1994 specification the parameters for Client Interface calls
>> are not in forth stack order but in reversed (heh!) order. Our implementation
>> confused this. 
>>
>> This might / will need some more work, but get this in so more people can test
>> easily.
>>     
> This breaks PPC boot. All my ISO disk images (Fedora 10, 11, debian
> 5.0.0, 4.0r6, openSUSE 11.1, openbsd 4.6, freebsd 7.2 ...) hang. They
> are yaboot based.
>
> My etch HD disk image hangs with this message (it is quik based):
>
> call-method AG�@: exception 5401f50 
>   

I am very sorry! Can you please try whether the problem goes away by
just undoing the changes to call-method itself?

In that case we should back them out. Otherwise we should back out the
whole patch...

Stefan


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