Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:41:54 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? Message-ID: <394A9F22.C4F66A3F@bellatlantic.net> References: <78045.961122915@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <39499DA1.614B786D@bellatlantic.net> <394A36A6.D71D170C@softweyr.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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