OpenBIOS

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OpenBIOS
[[Programmer|Original authorTemplate:Pluralize from text]]OpenBIOS Project
[[Programmer|DeveloperTemplate:Pluralize from text]]OpenBIOS community
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PlatformPowerPC, SPARC
TypeFirmware
LicenseGNU General Public License v2
Websitewww.openfirmware.info
Repositoryhttps://github.com/openbios/openbios

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OpenBIOS is a project aiming to provide free and open source implementations of Open Firmware. It is also the name of such an implementation.

Most of the implementations provided by OpenBIOS rely on additional lower-level firmware for hardware initialization, such as coreboot or Das U-Boot.

Provided implementations

Open Firmware

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Open Firmware
[[Programmer|DeveloperTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Firmworks
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Platformx86, PowerPC, ARM
LicenseBSD like
Websitewww.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware
Repositoryhttps://github.com/openbios/openfirmware

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Open Firmware implements the IEEE 1275-1994 standard.[1] Open Firmware was released by the company Firmworks.[2] The principal architect of Open Firmware, Mitch Bradley,[2] is chairman of the Open Firmware Working Group[3] and president and founder of Firmworks.[1] The OLPC XO-1 laptop uses the Open Firmware implementation.[2] It supports the x86, PowerPC, and ARM architectures, and is released under the terms of a BSD style license.[2]

SmartFirmware

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SmartFirmware
[[Programmer|DeveloperTemplate:Pluralize from text]]CodeGen, Inc.
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Written inANSI C
Platformx86, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS
Websitewww.codegen.com/SmartFirmware/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/openbios/smartfirmware

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SmartFirmware includes a C to FCode compiler. It is made by CodeGen, Inc. It is written in ANSI C and supports the x86, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS architectures.

OpenBOOT

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OpenBOOT
[[Programmer|Original authorTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Sun Microsystems
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PlatformSPARC
Websitewww.openfirmware.info/OpenBOOT
Repositoryhttps://github.com/openbios/openboot

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OpenBOOT was released by Sun Microsystems. It supports the sun4v architecture.

OpenBIOS

OpenBIOS is portable and licensed under the GPL. It is produced by the OpenBIOS project.

SLOF

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SLOF
[[Programmer|DeveloperTemplate:Pluralize from text]]IBM
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Written inC, Forth
PlatformPowerPC
LicenseRevised BSD license
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20080613161337/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-slof/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/aik/SLOF/

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Slimline Open Firmware is produced by IBM, and is released under a BSD style license. It supports the PowerPC architecture.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."What is FirmWorks?". FirmWorks. 9 February 2001.
  2. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Open Firmware". OpenBIOS. 18 March 2011. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Open Firmware Working Group". IEEE 1275 Open Firmware Home Page. 10 May 2005. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011.

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