From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 14:41:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C9337BA6D; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-202.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.202]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA19508; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:41:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <394A9F22.C4F66A3F@bellatlantic.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:41:54 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: Parag Patel , Mike Smith , Ronald G Minnich , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? References: <78045.961122915@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <39499DA1.614B786D@bellatlantic.net> <394A36A6.D71D170C@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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