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What kind of bios or system ROM will it use? OpenFirmware?

DonHopkins 7y ago
Open Firmware is the only firmware standard in existence to have its own theme song. https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/misc/ofwsong.au https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground... https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867724 OpenFirmware uses architecture independent FORTH byte code, so peripheral cards can include machine independent drivers and diagnostics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware Open Firmware Forth Code may be compiled into FCode, a bytecode which is independent of computer architecture details such as the instruction set and memory hierarchy. A PCI card may include a program, compiled to FCode, which runs on any Open Firmware system. In this way, it can provide platform-independent boot-time diagnostics, configuration code, and device drivers. FCode is also very compact, so that a disk driver may require only one or two kilobytes. Therefore, many of the same I/O cards can be used on Sun systems and Macintoshes that used Open Firmware. FCode implements ANS Forth and a subset of the Open Firmware library. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844026 That same Open Firmware Forth system [1], which was developed by Mitch Bradley [2], was not only in the PowerPC Mac bios, but it was originally used for the SparcStation boot roms, and eventually in the OLPC, and it was even an IEEE Standard 1275-1994! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bradley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bradley In fact: the Open Firmware boot loader and plug-in card firmware interface technology, commonly used by both Sun and Apple, is the only firmware standard in existence to have its own theme song [3] !!! [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/misc/ofwsong.au https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground... : OpenFirmwareSong ( - ) \ By Mitch Bradley. \ Sung to the tune of "The Flintstones". 𝄞 ." Firmware" cr ." Open Firmware" cr ." It's the appropriate technology," cr ." Features" cr ." FCode booting" cr ." Hierarchical DevInfo tree." cr ." Hack Forth" cr ." Using Emacs on the keys," cr ." Save in" cr ." NVRAM if you please." cr 𝄒 cr ." With your" cr ." Open Firmware" cr ." You can fix the bugs in no time" cr ." Bring the kernel up in no time" cr ." We'll have an FCode time!" cr 𝄒 cr \ Thank you and good night! reboot ;

Open Firmware is the only firmware standard in existence to have its own theme song. https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/misc/ofwsong.au https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground... https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867724 OpenFirmware uses architecture independent FORTH byte code, so peripheral cards can include machine independent drivers and diagnostics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware Open Firmware Forth Code may be compiled into FCode, a bytecode which is independent of computer architecture details such as the instruction set and memory hierarchy. A PCI card may include a program, compiled to FCode, which runs on any Open Firmware system. In this way, it can provide platform-independent boot-time diagnostics, configuration code, and device drivers. FCode is also very compact, so that a disk driver may require only one or two kilobytes. Therefore, many of the same I/O cards can be used on Sun systems and Macintoshes that used Open Firmware. FCode implements ANS Forth and a subset of the Open Firmware library. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844026 That same Open Firmware Forth system [1], which was developed by Mitch Bradley [2], was not only in the PowerPC Mac bios, but it was originally used for the SparcStation boot roms, and eventually in the OLPC, and it was even an IEEE Standard 1275-1994! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bradley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bradley In fact: the Open Firmware boot loader and plug-in card firmware interface technology, commonly used by both Sun and Apple, is the only firmware standard in existence to have its own theme song [3] !!! [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/misc/ofwsong.au https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground... : OpenFirmwareSong ( - ) \ By Mitch Bradley. \ Sung to the tune of "The Flintstones". 𝄞 ." Firmware" cr ." Open Firmware" cr ." It's the appropriate technology," cr ." Features" cr ." FCode booting" cr ." Hierarchical DevInfo tree." cr ." Hack Forth" cr ." Using Emacs on the keys," cr ." Save in" cr ." NVRAM if you please." cr 𝄒 cr ." With your" cr ." Open Firmware" cr ." You can fix the bugs in no time" cr ." Bring the kernel up in no time" cr ." We'll have an FCode time!" cr 𝄒 cr \ Thank you and good night! reboot ;