OpenBIOS
{{short description|Free software implementation of Open Firmware}}
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| author = OpenBIOS Project
| developer = OpenBIOS community
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| latest release version = 1.1
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2013|05|04}}
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| repo = https://github.com/openbios/openbios
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| genre = Firmware
| license = GNU General Public License v2
| website = {{URL|http://www.openfirmware.info/}}
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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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| developer = Firmworks
| released = {{start date|2006}}
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| repo = https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware
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| platform = x86, PowerPC, ARM
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| license = BSD like
| website = {{URL|http://www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware}}
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Open Firmware implements the IEEE 1275-1994 standard.{{cite web |title=What is FirmWorks? |website=FirmWorks |date=9 February 2001 |url=http://www.firmworks.com/www/fw.htm }} Open Firmware was released by the company [http://www.firmworks.com/ Firmworks].{{cite web |title=Open Firmware |website=OpenBIOS |date=18 March 2011 |url=https://www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware }} The principal architect of Open Firmware, Mitch Bradley, is chairman of the Open Firmware Working Group{{cite web |title=Open Firmware Working Group |website=IEEE 1275 Open Firmware Home Page |date=10 May 2005 |url=http://playground.sun.com/1275/home.html#OFWorkingGroup |archive-date=10 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610141437/http://playground.sun.com/1275/home.html#OFWorkingGroup }} and president and founder of Firmworks. The OLPC XO-1 laptop uses the Open Firmware implementation.
It supports the x86, PowerPC, and ARM architectures, and is released under the terms of a BSD style license.
= SmartFirmware =
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| developer = CodeGen, Inc.
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| repo = https://github.com/openbios/smartfirmware
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| programming language = ANSI C
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| platform = x86, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS
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| website = {{URL|http://www.codegen.com/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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| author = Sun Microsystems
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| platform = SPARC
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| website = {{URL|http://www.openfirmware.info/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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| developer = IBM
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| latest release version = 1.7.0-4
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2008|12|01}}
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| repo = https://github.com/aik/SLOF/
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| programming language = C, Forth
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| platform = PowerPC
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| license = Revised BSD license
| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20080613161337/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-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
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.openbios.org/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS}}
- [http://www.openfirmware.info/SmartFirmware SmartFirmware source code]
{{Firmware and booting}}