[geeks] OF in a PC

[R. Lonstein]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:00:12AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Nope, not even close in my opinion -- OpenBIOS is just some dudes
> writing yet another incarnation of the IBM PC BIOS, with the same stupid
> ancient APIs and everything.  Sure they might eventually get closer to
	[snip]

 OpenBIOS will be a free portable firmware implementation. The goal is
 to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994 (Referred to as Open Firmware)
 compliant firmware.

They claim to be aiming at OpenFirmware.

> The worst thing is that OpenBIOS still doesn't avoid them having to do
> all the hard parts.  While Intel's motherboard designs are often copied
> (as they were intended to be), there are lots of other designs too, and
> each one needs custom BIOS code.
	[snip]

This is believe. Just having a FCode interpreter in the PROM doesn't
avoid needing to make it support what ever cruft is carried over from
the IBM BIOS. And to make it work for multiple designs. I have doubts,
too.

Oh, well.

-Ross