Re: forth interpreter as kernel module

Segher Boessenkool (segher@chello.nl)
Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:50:47 +0200


benh@kernel.crashing.org wrote:

> Yes, an OpenFirmware emulator would be interesting. It would allow to
> softboot OF PCI cards on non-OF machines, and would allow to implement
> properly resume from sleep on some desktop G4s that will power off the
> PCI bus during sleep (some cards need to be re-softbooted, like video
> ones, and in some case, you really want the vendor firmware to run).

I'm writing a full OF implementation for OpenBios. It will also be
able to run in user space, which might be a better solution for things
like softboot (and besides, it makes development a lot easier).

It is supposed to be fully portable across all architectures that
run Linux.

Check out module Paflof from OpenBios CVS.

http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/

Nothing very mature yet, so don't get too excited now.

Cheers,

Segher

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