[openfirmware] On Raspberry Pi

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mitch Bradley wrote:
> As far as I know, nobody has ported OFW to Raspberry Pi yet, but it
> would be easy to do.  Once ported, OFW could then boot something else
> (e.g. Linux) from USB or LAN.
> 
> OFW's network stack supports many other protocols in addition to TFTP.
> On the OLPC platform, I routinely boot using HTTP over wireless LAN.  In
> the factory, they use OFW to communicate with Windows servers that run
> SMB/CIFS.
> 
> If someone will arrange for a Raspberry Pi to arrive at my doorstep,
> I'll do a quick port.

I don't think I can arrange it, but I know I'm going to be asked where 
(i.e. what country) your doorstep is :-)

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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