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Very wide spread firmware, mostly used on ARM, PPC and MIPS based embedded systems. Features a small shell. | |||
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Revision as of 09:52, 26 March 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.
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. Features a small shell.
(U)EFI
Umbrella name for several firmware implementations implementing the EFI/UEFI interface.
Tiano Core
UEFI based bootloader
GNUFI
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