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Open Firmware Companies/Vendor support
Open Firmware Documentation
Forth
Stack Machines
Booting
Flashing on Linux Systems
- MTD - Memory Technology Device Subsystem for Linux
- /dev/bios - Flash ROM driver for Linux (for flashing System and PCI adapter firmware) (obsolete)
- Uniflash (nonlinux)
- flashrom (LinuxBIOS)
Other Open Source Firmware Implementations
- LinuxBIOS - The LinuxBIOS project bootstraps systems to the point where they can run an OS kernel or any other application or bootloader from flash.
- TIARA - TIARA, an Openbios/GRUB/PFORTH composite, BIOS replacement (dead?)
- Proll - Proll is a firmware replacement for SUN JavaStations to boot Linux
- redboot
- SLOF
- Open Hackware
- SUN OpenBoot
- GBIOS - GBIOS is a GPLed firmware for PowerPC G3/G4 and some Motorola cpus. (dead?)
- ...
Virtual Machines and Emulation
- QEMU
- XEN Virtualization
- Bochs - portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator
- DOSemu - DOS Emulation for Linux
- Hypervisor
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