Is this possible? It seems to me that OpenBoot is a public standard. Does it require fee paying to use it?
OK let me give more info here. The driver is written in Forth, and compiled into.. bytecode compiled forth.. I think the compiled forth is stored on a flash in the hardware generally. (it can be upraded).
So you can just write a driver once, and it runs on Sun and on Apple. I'm wondering if OpenBoot drivers could be used with Linux and BSD. As in, write a generic driver interface to access OpenBoot drivers. (a generic interface for BSD and Linux). Perhaps this is configurable via a file say/etc/OpenBoot-modules via a hotplug style daemon.
Interesting idea?
It could save a lot of time for hardware people, writing a driver once, then covers maybe 10% of hardware instead of writing three drivers (OpenBoot / BSD / Linux ) for the same 10%.
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Is this possible?
.. bytecode compiled forth..
/etc/OpenBoot-modules via a hotplug style daemon.
It seems to me that OpenBoot is a public standard. Does it require fee paying to use it?
OK let me give more info here. The driver is written in Forth, and compiled into
I think the compiled forth is stored on a flash in the hardware generally. (it can be upraded).
So you can just write a driver once, and it runs on Sun and on Apple.
I'm wondering if OpenBoot drivers could be used with Linux and BSD.
As in, write a generic driver interface to access OpenBoot drivers. (a generic interface for BSD and Linux).
Perhaps this is configurable via a file say
Interesting idea?
It could save a lot of time for hardware people, writing a driver once, then covers maybe 10% of hardware instead of writing three drivers (OpenBoot / BSD / Linux ) for the same 10%.