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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> 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.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.