Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by gioele on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:50PM
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> Open Firmware, also known as IEEE-1275, has issues in that it is an interpreted, stack-based byte-code. Very few programmers are facile in Forth programming
And ACPI is based on an interpreted, non stack-based bytecode, AML. [1]
There is one order of magnitude or two more Forth programmers than AML/ASL programmers.
And ACPI is based on an interpreted, non stack-based bytecode, AML. [1]
There is one order of magnitude or two more Forth programmers than AML/ASL programmers.
[1] http://wiki.osdev.org/AML