On 3 Feb 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The main problem is that cards don't usually come with IEEE 1275 FCode > > on them. We've pretty much had to write all of ours, and have gotten > > tired of it - we're actually looking at LinuxBIOS as a way to get > > out of that business, and just build in the drivers we care to in the > > Linux kernel on the prom. But I can answer questions any questions > > about writing FCode, it's most of what I've done in recent years. > > Interesting. The observation that powerful firmware eventually > becomes an OS so you might as well use an OS, seems true :)
I don't expect the cards to come with fcode any time soon, if ever. Four reasons: first, the market is more or less zero, and the all the non-x86 systems support x86 emulators to support the x86 option roms; second, if they support two option roms (fcode, x86) that makes for lots more work; third, the PC market will probably never go to fcode; and fourth, I bet they (naively) think that fcode would make reverse engineering easier. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
