Re: Pushing up daisies...
Rob Andrews wrote:
>
> In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Leandro Dutra wrote:
> > Maybe I'm naive, but why then your disk drive and CD would spin?
> > Aren't they spinned by OpenFirware, or just by having power applied to =
> > them?
>
> AFAIK, they're only spinning up because they have power.
>
> > I wouldn't think you could alter the entry point for Open Firmware, but
> > that you could alter the initialization process after Open Firmware has
> > started.
>
> Could very well be completely wrong, judging from what I read here:
> http://bananajr6000.apple.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Withdrawn/315-it.txt
>
"Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)"
Does that mean that the open specs from IBM have hardware made from them, or is
this something else?
Mike
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