Subj : Re: Synchronet can maybe.
To   : Deuce
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 03:20 pm

  Re: Re: Synchronet can maybe.
  By: Deuce to Digital Man on Tue Aug 02 2005 03:36 pm

 >  >  > Well, OpenFirmware isn't realy part of the OS.  Solaris/SPARC systems 
 >  >  > same thing.
 >  >
 >  > This was a Mac-specific ROM, but yeah, you're right, it's not part of the
 >  > (just like the PC BIOS is not part of Windows). But unlike a PC, this ROM
 >  > an integral part of the debugging process for Mac device drivers. <shrug>
 > 
 > Hrm... never heard of a PCI Mac that didn't use OpenFirmware, so we may be
 > talking about different things.
 > 
 > http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_boot.html
 > 
 > Has some nice OF examples.

That looks like the thing I was talking about. I didn't know the name (or that
Sun had something similar).

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