Open Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...
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In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware. For a relatively simple device, firmware may perform all...
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Open-source firmware is firmware that is published under an open-source license. It can be contrasted with proprietary firmware, which is published under...
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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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UEFI (redirect from Open Virtual Machine Firmware)
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, /ˈjuːɪfaɪ/ as an acronym) is a specification for the firmware architecture of a computing platform. When...
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Klipper is an open source firmware for 3D printers that distributes the workload between a general-purpose computer (such as a Raspberry Pi) and one or...
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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...
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Genesi Pegasos (section Firmware)
counterparts, it boots via Open Firmware. For hard disk drive booting the Open Firmware implementation called SmartFirmware requires an RDB boot partition...
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Booting (redirect from Boot firmware)
firmware. Sun Microsystems later developed OpenBoot, later known as Open Firmware, which incorporated a Forth interpreter, with much of the firmware being...
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1986 video game Starflight from Electronic Arts. Forth is used in the Open Firmware boot loader, in spaceflight applications such as the Philae spacecraft...
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New World ROM (category Macintosh firmware)
for normal users to get to Open Firmware; to do so it was necessary to either hook up a terminal, or change the Open Firmware settings from inside Mac OS...
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community-developed, custom firmware for consumer-grade computer networking routers and gateways powered by Broadcom chipsets. The firmware has been continually...
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products, they changed the firmware from the Open Firmware used on PowerPC-based Macs to the Intel-designed Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).[not verified...
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Old World ROM (category Macintosh firmware)
with an Old World ROM contain an Open Firmware implementation, and a copy of the Macintosh Toolbox as an Open Firmware device. These machines are set to...
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alumni of the British public school Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland Open Firmware, computer software which loads an operating system Oxygen monofluoride...
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The SRM firmware (also called the SRM console) is the boot firmware written by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for computer systems based on the DEC...
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TianoCore EDK II (redirect from Firmware as a service)
"Microsoft releases Mu open-source UEFI firmware | bit-tech.net". Bit-tech. Retrieved 2021-03-26. "Microsoft Announces "Project Mu" For Open-Source UEFI Alternative...
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Marlin is open source firmware originally designed for RepRap project FDM (fused deposition modeling) 3D printers using the Arduino platform. Marlin supports...
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OpenVPN. Notable firmware packages with OpenVPN integration include: OpenVPN has also been implemented in some manufacturer router firmware. OpenVPN has been...
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is used on Sun, Apple, and other computers with the Forth-based Open Firmware (OpenBoot). The appearance of ok in inappropriate contexts is the subject...
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This ensures that, after reading the first partition table entry, the firmware is aware of how many blocks more to read from the media in order to process...
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control software to make them function (firmware, device drivers). This is a list of the status of some open-source drivers for 802.11 wireless network...
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PinePhone Pro (category Open-source mobile phones)
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:...
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NodeMCU (category Open hardware electronic devices)
NodeMCU is a low-cost open source IoT platform. It initially included firmware which runs on the ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC from Espressif Systems, and hardware...
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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...
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Custom firmware, also known as aftermarket firmware, is an unofficial new or modified version of firmware created by third parties on devices such as video...
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BIOS (section Open-source BIOS replacements)
known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is a type of firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and...
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Flipper Zero (section Firmware)
July 2023, an app store was opened for the device. The electronic schematics and firmware of the Flipper Zero project are open sourced under the GNU General...
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QMK (category Open-source firmware)
QMK (Quantum Mechanical Keyboard) is open-source firmware for microcontrollers that control computer keyboards. The QMK Configurator is freely available...
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