[OpenBIOS] State of AIX

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 30/01/11 15:48, Andreas Färber wrote:

> Blame Mark. ;) Seriously, everything else was automatically
> git-rebase-able, I've pushed a testable version:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/openbios/afaerber.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ppc64-boot
>
> Not sure what you're referring to above. I don't think I modified the
> type definitions, I went with what they were defined like. Most are long
> long as you say, but that's something I would like to be able to change
> in the future. Thus, I'm defining the cell types in term of POSIX
> integer types, using their PRI* macros to get away from the ll vs. l
> issue. Refactoring that into a separate patch now.
>
> As for the client interface part, I take it that this still makes sense
> despite the ppc64 cell width discussion and will work towards committing.

I've just tested your ppc64-boot branch here and it works fine on 
SPARC64 (and still builds okay on SPARC32 even though it doesn't use 
CIF). If everyone else is happy, I'm happy.


ATB,

Mark.

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