Le mardi 12 avril 2011 à 21:10 +0300, Marek Laane a écrit : > 2011/4/12 Dimitrios Glentadakis <[email protected]> > > > I dont know what is the "OF" for in this sentence : > > "Enable OF Boot?" > > > > libDrakX > > string # 36 > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > Dimitrios Glentadakis > > > > Probably abbreviation of Open Firmware? At least some messages earlier there > is Open Firmware...
Yup. Maybe we should change the string to be clearer. OpenFirmware ( which act like BIOS on pc, to simplify http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware ) is no longer used on most modern computers. It was used by sparc ( still sold by Oracle I think ), old macs ( ie, with ppc, no longer sold AFAIK ), etc. And given we focus on x86 for now, and arm / mips later, you will likely never see the string in practice ( at least for the next 3/4 years I think ). -- Michael Scherer
