[OpenBIOS] Apple's Open Firmware.

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 29 21:57:57 CEST 2018


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 06:44:15AM -0400, Jd Lyons wrote:
> > On Mar 19, 2018, at 8:58 PM, Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 08:11:25PM -0400, James Lyons wrote:
> >> I tried:
> >> 
> >> dev agp/@10
> >> : open true ;
> >> open-dev " agp/@10"
> >> 
> >> ALLOC-MEM request too big!
> >> 
> >> Did I do it correct?
> > 
> > You destroyed (well, made inaccessible) any "open" method there was.
> > That is certainly not going to help.
> 
> Segher, how would I properly call open?

You shouldn't do that   : open ...
If the node did not have an "open" method already, something else is
wrong (which you cannot fix _this_ way).

> Also, does anyone know if Apple’s OF supports fcode-verbose?

It does afair.

> What I am trying to do, load the Fcode Rom from a file may not be supported in Apple’s Open Firmware. Arti Irta never mentioned it could be done, so it’s maybe there was a reason for that.

It can be done.


Segher



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