Power-on to GUI in 20 seconds

Fri Aug 29 17:14:01 EDT 2008

On 29.08.2008 22:19, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> I also want to see Open Firmware replace proprietary BIOSes
> everywhere. In fact, I would like to see OFW-only embedded systems,
> since FORTH is designed for that environment. (I am assuming that
> Mitch can add real-time capabilities to OFW, and that a variety of
> development environments are available for such systems.) Or perhaps
> OFW/Parrot hybrids. I don't know. It's Free Software, folks, what do
> you want to implement today?
>   

It's free software, so you get to choose from multiple free firmware
implementations for x86, some in C, some in Assembler, some in Forth:
- Open Firmware (Forth)
- Smart Firmware (C, compiles to Forth)
- U-Boot (C, ASM)
- coreboot v2/v3 (C)
- LinuxBIOS v1 (C, ASM)

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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