open firmware

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 10:34 AM, i2a wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:17:47 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote
>>
>> See http://playground.sun.com/1275/
>
> Thanks, initially I had no luck with this site (I had find it),
> http://playground.sun.com/1275/home.html#OFDCoreDoc
>
> The two links of the core documentation are dead :(, and there has to 
> be a way
> to get the documentation without having to buy “the book”.

openbios.org has a better-organized documentation collection.

> But here it is, via this page http://www.firmworks.com/www/ieee.htm
> I got to ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/p1275/coredoc/ where the coredoc 
> is
> downloadable (it is old, but better then nothing), no idea why there 
> are no
> pointers to it..
>
> If someone has any newer documentation pls let me know, the system I 
> use is from
> 2004.

The Open Firmware documents have not changed for a long time (which is 
probably a bad thing).

-Hollis