Is there a free impl. of Open Firmware

Deirdre Saoirse dsaoirse at linuxcare.com
Fri Jul 2 04:22:12 EST 1999


At 7:33 PM +0200 6/26/99, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>Does someone knows is there is a free implementation of OF, or at least
>work on one ? if there's no, this would be an interesting project to do ;-)

Open Firmware was ALWAYS an open project: www.openfirmware.org

>I was mostly thinking about putting a thin OF layer in mac-on-linux in
>order to truely support any OF-based OS and load the new MacOS ROM (so
>MacOS would work on any PPC based machines using the ROM provided by
>Apple) but I'm working on BIOSes for custom design embedded boards with
>various CPUs and in this field, it would be very useful too.

See the URL above.

Deirdre Saoirse, Systems Analyst, Linuxcare, Inc.
415.354.4878 x252 tel, 415.701.7457 fax
dsaoirse at linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
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