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I would be interested in having more discussions on or off-line aboutu-boot is more or less the standard for embedded development (especially on the powerpc.) Almost all new products use it.
firmware support other than x86 BIOS. Also, thank you everyone for
your replies and comments.
Adding support for u-boot may quite possibly be the easiest support to add for any firmware/BIOS. u-boot is amazingly well thought out. Open Firmware is far less intuitive. Although I've worked with OF and dabbled with writing graphic interfaces for it, it would take someone much more knowledgeable than me to do that part. I'd certainly be interested to know how it is done. There probably really are not that many people that know how to do that and they likely are not hanging around here. (yet)
PPC firmware support is not necessarily required for PCI cards. Some drivers worked in the past without it. But, since this is a video card, things are more complicated.
In general, my gut feeling is that you can assume open source firmware support but not count on the others until many cards are already made and we are already using them. This means, this card will be usable in the embedded PPC market but not in a mac. Which is fine, the market for the former is 10x the latter.
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