From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Grant Likely" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:17:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20081125135519.038abf23@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <492C573E.9030309@billgatliff.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Matt Sealey Cc: Bill Gatliff , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese , Wolfgang Denx , Grant Erickson On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Matt Sealey wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> >> Matt Sealey wrote: >> >> > I can think of a bunch of reasons why it's a good idea.. >> >> Can you point to a GPL/LGPL/BSD/etc. source code for an OpenFirmware >> implementation? > > Yes, there's FirmWorks, CodeGen SmartFirmware, IBM SLOF and OpenBIOS.. > they're all linked from the OpenBIOS website (along with a bunch of the > documentation from http://www.openfirmware.org in more-readable formats like > PDF) > > http://www.openbios.org/ > > > But here's the real question; why do you need an opensource implementation? > Curiosity? Umm, so that it can be ported to new boards perhaps? So that developers can work with it? g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.