El jue, 19-07-2007 a las 00:46 +0200, Andreas Färber escribió: > Am 18.07.2007 um 18:26 schrieb Blue Swirl: > > >> > It looks like open hack'ware is pretty much stalled, so its hard > >> > telling > >> > what progress will be made futurewise. > >> > >> Might it be possible to replace it with OpenBIOS? > > > > Sure, and as both are GPL useful, code can be shared. But some PPC > > developers are needed. It may still be easier to fix the OHW bugs than > > start over anew. > > Not sure I understand... I thought Open Firmware was based on > platform independent Forth code? > I'm running on ppc64 and could try to compile something under Linux > in case that's the problem. Yes, OF is basically a Forth-interpreter. Of course this Forth-interpreter is in C and compile to machine code :p
Then you can add modules in F-Code machine independent code. Try to compile OpenBIOS under Linux/PPC (using 32bit compiler, not ppc64) and comment us.
