[OpenBIOS] PATCH v2: Rework CIF interface to handle parameters in reverse order

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Hi everyone,

Here is a second version of the patch which attempts to reverse the 
argument order of the CIF Forth words so that they can be called 
correctly from both Forth and C.

The patch is fairly straightforward; probably the only unexpected part 
is the need to rename the existing /openprom/client-services "claim" and 
"release" words to "cif-claim" and "cif-release" respectively. This is 
because we need to use the "claim" and "release" words in 
forth/system/ciface.fs to reverse the argument order before calling the 
real underlying words.

I've tested this on a FC12 PPC CD as well as my SPARC64 Milax CD and 
with this version of the patch, the CIF words are called correctly in 
both cases. I'd like to apply this reasonably soon, so please can people 
test on their setups to make sure it doesn't break anything?

Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk>


ATB,

Mark.

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