Subject: Re: sparc questions
To: Jonathan O'Brien <obrien@phoenix.sfsu.edu>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/16/1996 00:02:38
> regain all its functionality. I remember having suspicions about the
> packages portion of the device tree (what is the "deblocker"?).
> 

"deblocker" is a "package" (in the PROM's Forth lingo) that gives character
stream access to block-oriented devices, much like the block special
devices in the kernel. It's present in all Openboot PROMs.

-pk