Gerald Van Baren wrote:
Matt Sealey wrote:
>>
The Toshiba TOPAS910 ARM development board also runs Open Firmware and
contains patches to support OF device trees.
I dare say there might be an x86 box or two out there, too. But they
have ACPI tables too which is far more common..
More than a box or two: lots of OLPC XOs out there now. ;-)
<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Firmware>
I was thinking more in a platform kind of numbers rather than a sales
kind of numbers, but you're right.
It's far more common than people might think at first glance. With x86
I am sure it would benefit the platform a little more if the OF support
was in-line with the shared code between PPC and SPARC (and now I guess,
ARM) but nevertheless it's an Open Firmware platform and something that
appeared not too long ago.
OF is still a going concern; if you want a nice flexible firmware, why
not use it? Most of the implementations are open source (FirmWorks and
CodeGen trees, and the Sun reference design) too.
--
Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
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