Helping out with OpenBIOS

[jchowland]

Does this indicate that there isnt much to go on development (i.e. the cores completed and now we're adding support for the devices like keyboard, monitor etc??)

[Penguin Power!]

(Firefox is really cheesing me off. its not renembering my passwords)

I think he also said something about the cuda.cc file

[dfoesch]

[quote="jchowland":d70d81b26b]
Does this indicate that there isnt much to go on development (i.e. the cores completed and now we're adding support for the devices like keyboard, monitor etc??)
[/quote:d70d81b26b]

Well OpenBIOS has already since we started PearPC been pretty compatible and complete in its OpenFirmware implementation.

The problem that we're running into with PearPC, is that in order to use OpenBIOS, the code has been so far written raw to the platform, and made use of a serial port for the input/output.

This is all fine and good for development, but we're trying to get an actual boot-up going that should detect devices and setup a more practical interface.

Thus, it's not that the development is completed, in fact, it's far from that unless you're talking strictly about the core. The problem is, and has always been the startup and initialization code, which BIOS manufacturers and reknowned for not releasing as an open standard and inhibit the free software community for producing alternatives.

[BlackShadowWolf]

Hey there i was just checking in to see if theres been any progress recently in th OpenBIOS area of development since its been months since a anything has been said. Unfortunately i have little knowledge of programming so i wouldnt be able to help out with this at all, but keep up the good work everyone .

[joostpossemiers]

How is OpenBIOS going?
People: if we can get OpenBIOS running, PearPC will be the most important Macintosh emulator EVER.

[Alex]

Well, OpenBIOS can load up, but the CUDA driver does not work. I did a bit of work on stripping out everything unneeded from PROM - I only left the ELF loader to load the OpenBIOS image, but that's all I've done.

[dfoesch]

I'm supposed to be working on getting a serial driver working that will work on a socket or character device... thus allowing one to work on OpenBIOS easier, and actually getting it into the main distro this time, so that they don't have to work with a quite dated version.