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There are a lot of (Free Software, as well as proprietary) firmware implementations available these days, which can be very confusing. This page tries to give an overview. | There are a lot of (Free Software, as well as proprietary) firmware implementations available these days, which can be very confusing. This page tries to give an overview. | ||
== coreboot == | == coreboot == | ||
License: GPLv2. | |||
== FreeBIOS == | == FreeBIOS == | ||
This project is dead and was merged into coreboot. Use coreboot instead. | This project is dead and was merged into coreboot. Use coreboot instead. License: GPLv2. | ||
== OpenBIOS == | == OpenBIOS == | ||
Open Firmware IEEE 1275-1994 implementation. Kernel and some modules are written in C. Large parts of the code base is written in Forth. License: GPL. | |||
== OpenFirmware == | == OpenFirmware == | ||
"The original" Open Firmware IEEE 1275-1994 implementation was open sourced in 2006/2007 by Mitch Bradley. License: BSD. | |||
== SmartFirmware == | == SmartFirmware == | ||
Open Firmware IEEE 1275-1994 implementation completely written in ANSI C. Features a C to FCode compiler. | |||
== OpenBoot == | == OpenBoot == | ||
SUN's "fork" of Open Firmware. | |||
== U-Boot == | == U-Boot == | ||
== EFI == | Very wide spread firmware, mostly used on ARM, PPC and MIPS based embedded systems, but not so much for x86 systems. Features a small shell. | ||
== (U)EFI == | |||
Umbrella name for several firmware implementations implementing the EFI/UEFI interface. | |||
== | == Tiano Core == | ||
UEFI based bootloader. | |||
Latest revision as of 14:43, 26 September 2010
This is work in progress!
There are a lot of (Free Software, as well as proprietary) firmware implementations available these days, which can be very confusing. This page tries to give an overview.
coreboot
License: GPLv2.
FreeBIOS
This project is dead and was merged into coreboot. Use coreboot instead. License: GPLv2.
OpenBIOS
Open Firmware IEEE 1275-1994 implementation. Kernel and some modules are written in C. Large parts of the code base is written in Forth. License: GPL.
OpenFirmware
"The original" Open Firmware IEEE 1275-1994 implementation was open sourced in 2006/2007 by Mitch Bradley. License: BSD.
SmartFirmware
Open Firmware IEEE 1275-1994 implementation completely written in ANSI C. Features a C to FCode compiler.
OpenBoot
SUN's "fork" of Open Firmware.
U-Boot
Very wide spread firmware, mostly used on ARM, PPC and MIPS based embedded systems, but not so much for x86 systems. Features a small shell.
(U)EFI
Umbrella name for several firmware implementations implementing the EFI/UEFI interface.
Tiano Core
UEFI based bootloader.