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OpenBIOS Original author(s) OpenBIOS Project Stable release 1.0 / March 1, 2009 Platform PowerPC, SPARC Type Firmware License GNU General Public License v2 Website www.openfirmware.info 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 an additional lower-level firmware for hardware initialization, such as coreboot or Das U-Boot.
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Provided implementations
Open Firmware
Open Firmware Developer(s) Firmworks Initial release 2006 Platform x86, PowerPC, ARM License BSD like Website www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware Open Firmware should not be confused with the IEEE-1275 specification it implements. Open Firmware was released by the company Firmworks. The principal architect of Open Firmware, Mitch Bradley, is chairman of the Open Firmware Working Group and president and founder of Firmworks. The OLPC XO-1 laptop uses the Open Firmware implementation. It supports the x86, PowerPC, ARM architectures, and is released under the terms of a BSD style license.
SmartFirmware
SmartFirmware Developer(s) CodeGen, Inc. Written in ANSI C Platform x86, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS Website www.codegen.com/SmartFirmware/ 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
OpenBOOT Original author(s) Sun Microsystems Platform SPARC Website www.openfirmware.info/OpenBOOT 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
SLOF Developer(s) IBM Stable release 1.7.0-4 / December 1, 2008 Platform PowerPC Website www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-slof/ Slimline Open Firmware is produced by IBM. It supports the PowerPC architecture.
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