Re: forth interpreter as kernel module

benh@kernel.crashing.org
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 20:16:27 +0200


>> I would be interested in comments on what should be fixed in the code,
>> although I may not have time to act on them.
>
>Strange. The one area forth does have sort of relevance may be outside the
>x86 world. The portable boot rom standards (the one everyone ignored for
>x86) is all about forth stuff. I don't know if anyone has use for a forth
>engine that can speak that ?

Yes, an OpenFirmware emulator would be interesting. It would allow to
softboot OF PCI cards on non-OF machines, and would allow to implement
properly resume from sleep on some desktop G4s that will power off the
PCI bus during sleep (some cards need to be re-softbooted, like video
ones, and in some case, you really want the vendor firmware to run).

Ben.

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