[News] SciTech Software Inc. announcement | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Feb-2003 21:36 GMT by Gareth Knight | 195 comments View flat View list |
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
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SciTech Software Inc. announcement : Comment 158 of 195 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Nicolas Sallin on 19-Feb-2003 14:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 129 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): >Openfirmware is not a magical substitute for hardware documentation.
>All a firmware does is to initialise the hardware upon power-up.
Oh, don't listen to clueless people. OpenFirmware does more than just initialising the hardware.
You can retrieve nearly all the information you need from it. And that's the way to go.
Then you also need PCI configuration but it's very easy to get everything from the available Linux sources.
There is no magic. It's pretty standard stuff.
>(Incidentally, is this the reason why Pegasos Betatesters I/II are denied access to a Linux distro for
>the Pegasos even when they request it specifically:
You mean all the people who previously got a Linux kernel for their Pegasos made it themselves ?
I must admit didn't know so many people were able to port an OS.
*All* Pegasos owners can get the Linux kernel and its sources.
>We have no desire to become involved in a "firmware arms race" whereby various countermeasures would
>be implemented in the Pegasos firmware to prevent OS 4 from running, which we would subsequently need
>to work around only to find more measures in our path with the next update of the firmware.
Why would somebody put a "countermeasure" in Pegasos's SmartFirmware ? This idea is pretty weird.
Pegasos is done by professionals who don't waste their their time with such things. |
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