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> [OpenBIOS] [ANNOUNCE] New FCode Suite available!</tt><br>
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> Date: </tt><br>
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> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:29:14 +0200</tt><br>
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> From: </tt><br>
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> Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de></tt><br>
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> The OpenBIOS Mailinglist <openbios@lists.openbios.org></tt><br>
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> openbios@lists.openbios.org</tt><br>
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<tt>> Dear OpenBIOS community,<br>
> <br>
> today I am very glad to announce a new version of the OpenBIOS FCode<br>
> utilities toke and detok. David Paktor, of the IBM corporation,<br>
> contributed a couple of significant improvements over the old versions<br>
> of those utilities.<br>
> <br>
> Toke and Detok now have a comprehensive regression test suite<br>
> of over 170 tests. This test suite makes it easy to verify <br>
> that new contributions do not break existing functionality.<br>
> <br>
> * among the new features:<br>
> <br>
> - detailed error reporting<br>
> - local value support! See<br>
> <a href="http://www.openbios.org/fcodesuite/Documents/TokenizerLocalValues.htm">http://www.openbios.org/fcodesuite/Documents/TokenizerLocalValues.htm</a><br>
> - much better handling of PCI option roms<br>
> - improved compatibility to other tokenizers<br>
> - bug fixes in flow control and string escape handling<br>
> <br>
> Please be sure to check the complete list of new features at:<br>
> <a href="http://www.openbios.org/fcodesuite/Documents/TokenizerNewFeatures.htm">http://www.openbios.org/fcodesuite/Documents/TokenizerNewFeatures.htm</a><br>
> <br>
> I want to send a big THANK YOU out to David Paktor at this point.<br>
> <br>
> NOTE: The contributed changes are not in the main repository yet. <br>
> You can download the changed source code and binaries as well as the<br>
> test suite and test results as well as documentation from:<br>
> <a href="http://www.openbios.org/development/fcode.html">http://www.openbios.org/development/fcode.html</a><br>
> <br>
> Please send any feedback to this mailing list.<br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> <br>
> Stefan Reinauer<br>
> <br>
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<br>
And thank you, Stefan, for your kind words and for the contribution you made initiating and maintaining<br>
this project and web-site.<br>
<br>
I would like to make two small amendments:<br>
<br>
The test suite contains exactly 162 tests. Still a lot, but let's not mis-advertise even to a small degree.<br>
<br>
Modesty prohibits me from saying much more than this, but I hope a look at the New Features document,<br>
and at the Test Log files, will suffice to demonstrate that "<tt>a couple of significant improvements</tt>"<br>
is very much an understatement... ;-}<br>
<br>
That being said, let me again express my gratitude for the opportunity to make this contribution to the<br>
Open Firmware community.<br>
<br>
My goal was to create a truly professional-grade tool; I look forward to finding out whether I have achieved it.<br>
<br>
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<br>
David L. Paktor System Firmware Developer<br>
System and Technology Group Global Firmware Division<br>
dlpaktor@us.ibm.com David L Paktor/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS<br>
<br>
18880 Homestead Rd. Building 9945<br>
Cupertino CA 95014 Room 1026<br>
408-342-6110 T/L 560-6110<br>
<br>
"The Bug Stops Here"<br>
<br>
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