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Open Firmware, used by Sun and Apple in the past, always seemed pretty decent to me: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by throw0101a 4y ago
Open Firmware, used by Sun and Apple in the past, always seemed pretty decent to me:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Having an honest-to-God / proper serial console, without any kludgey (BIOS) redirects, was something I liked having as a sysadmin of SPARC systems.
- messe 4y agoYep, I still love it on my SPARC64/PowerPC systems. My favourite aspect of coding for it is the fact that you can write bootsectors in forth[1]. [1]: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/bootblk/bootblk.fth?rev=1.10&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/bootbl...
- throw0101a 4y agoPlatform-independent drivers is also clever.