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Open Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It originated at Sun Microsystems where it was known as OpenBoot, and has been used by multiple vendors including Sun, Apple, IBM and ARM.[citation needed]
Open Firmware allows a system to load platform-independent drivers directly from a PCI device, improving compatibility.
Open Firmware may be accessed through its command line interface, which uses the Forth programming language.
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and patents. Alternatives to proprietary firmware may be free (libre) or open-source. Proprietary firmware (and especially the microcode) is much more...
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for normal users to get to OpenFirmware; to do so it was necessary to either hook up a terminal, or change the OpenFirmware settings from inside Mac OS...
counterparts, it boots via OpenFirmware. For hard disk drive booting the OpenFirmware implementation called SmartFirmware requires an RDB boot partition...
AIX. On the other hand, many logic board components, especially the OpenFirmware boot ROM, are similar to the "Tsunami" board used in the Power Macintosh...
Raspberry Pi (rpi-open-firmware)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017. "christinaa/rpi-open-firmware: Open source VPU side...
alumni of the British public school Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland OpenFirmware, computer software which loads an operating system Oxygen monofluoride...
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with an Old World ROM contain an OpenFirmware implementation, and a copy of the Macintosh Toolbox as an OpenFirmware device. These machines are set to...
peripherals. The device tree was derived from SPARC-based computers via the OpenFirmware project. The current Devicetree specification is targeted at smaller...
possible to run OpenWrt on personal computers and laptops. The OpenWrt project was started in 2004 after Linksys had built the firmware for their WRT54G...
firmware. Sun Microsystems later developed OpenBoot, later known as OpenFirmware, which incorporated a Forth interpreter, with much of the firmware being...
Modem firmware of the Quectel EG25-G is based on a proprietary Android userspace, though an unofficial open-source version exists (actually mostly open-source:...
Add ofdrm for OpenFirmware framebuffers". git.kernel.org. Retrieved 21 February 2023. Larabel, Michael (20 October 2022). "OpenFirmware DRM Driver "OFDRM"...
fwupd is an open-source daemon for managing the installation of firmware updates on Linux-based systems, developed by GNOME maintainer Richard Hughes....