[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] drivers/escc.c: Add slot-names property ch-a node under escc

[Tarl Neustaedter]

On 2016-Feb-9 13:56 , Programmingkid wrote:
>> > 
>> > That is, the first four bytes are supposed to be an integer (in binary) indicating how many names follow, each name null-terminated. The usual case for this properly is that you see 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, <string>, 0x00.
> So is this how it is suppose to be added to OpenBIOS:
>
> 1 encode-int " Modem" encode-string encode+ " slot-names" property
>
> I tried my best to make it look like this:
>
> 00000001
> Modem
>
> but I just couldn't figure out how. The above code makes the value for slot-names into a bunch of unsightly hexadecimal values. 

Since it's a mixed-type property (integer, followed by an array of
strings), unsightly hexadecimal values are inevitable. Assuming Apple
implements the property per the PCI binding, that is.

Under OpenBoot (Sun/Oracle's version of IEEE 1275), the slot-names
properties would generally dump out into a hexadecimal array unless it
was something which knew the specific format of slot-names. The general
".properties" didn't.