[OpenBIOS] OpenBIOS PowerPC missing open firmware commands

Alexander von Gluck kallisti5 at unixzen.com
Wed Jul 20 00:50:14 CEST 2011


On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:16:27 -0400, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> On 2011-Jul-19 18:14 , Andreas Färber wrote:
>>>
>>> It sounds like your display driver didn't initialize them.
>>
>> Just to verify, your == OpenBIOS' display driver? Or should the OS 
>> do something?
>
> Correct. Either FCode from a card or some kind of builtin driver that
> Openbios knows to attach to a PCI node.

This doesn't seem right, these commands work on OpenFirmware as-is. 
Their goal is to clear the text OpenBIOS console and toggle the cursor.

Example:

Type:  toggle-cursor at the OpenFirmware prompt on any mac and the 
cursor will disappear / reappear.
        erase-screen and the OpenFirmware screen will erase.

Thanks!
   -- Alex



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