Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

[Sergey Babkin]

Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >
> > Eh ? I don't quite get how Sun could be associated with Open Firmware.
> 
> Probably because they developed it?

Ah, that was my ignorance. never knew that Open Firmware is a trademarked
concept, like Open Source.
 
> > It always looked quite proprietary to me.
> 
> Yeah, those IEEE standards are terribly proprietary.  IEEE-1275 in this
> case.  You can find more info at http://www.openfirmware.org/

Thanks for the pointer. When I encountered this thing in a Sun
workstation (without any docs included) this Forth-based
interface looked theoretically wonderful but practically rather
awful. I still don't know if it can be configured to boot from
the first available disk on the SCSI bus as opposed to booting
from a disk with specific SCSI ID though I spent half a day
trying to figure it out. Maybe I'll find it out now.

-SB


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