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I really enjoyed (and still) Open Firmware which was used by Apple on the PowerPC macintosh (starting from the first PCI models up to the latest G5) |
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It is a nice environment, with all the capabilities of UEFI with even more as it come for free and directly with a Forth interpreter (basically the CLI is an immediate forth interpreter) |
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Was quite nice and tidy, allowing lots of stuff like modifications of the device tree and other nice things. |
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Was probably underused by Apple but yet, was the key for a lot of hacks on PPC models! |
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I think it was originated from Sun and use on spark station, not really sure there |
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> Le 31 août 2018 à 18:19, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> a écrit : |
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>> On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote: |
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>>> On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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>>> Hi all, |
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>>> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, |
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>>> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have |
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>>> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc |
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>>> booted up. |
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>> Try |
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Boot_sequence |
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>> https://github.com/coreos/grub/tree/2.02-coreos/grub-core/boot/i386/pc |
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>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/main.c#L135 |
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> Thanks for the comment but I was more looking along the lines of "When |
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> I used the early SPARC 1 the boot was controlled by ???? and it was |
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> really good because......" hence my original comment about "been there, |
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> done that", people who are old enough to know what a SPARC1 looked like |
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> or even used a Personal Iris or a POWERstation. |
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> Andrew |
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