> 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).
I'm writing a full OF implementation for OpenBios. It will also be
able to run in user space, which might be a better solution for things
like softboot (and besides, it makes development a lot easier).
It is supposed to be fully portable across all architectures that
run Linux.
Check out module Paflof from OpenBios CVS.
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/
Nothing very mature yet, so don't get too excited now.
Cheers,
Segher
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