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Open Firmware - Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.
Open Firmware Working Group - O-F is processor and system independent boot code: firmware. Read about O-F, the Working Group; several related documents; several links to mirror sites, Forth, vendors, documentation, news, and proposals.
CodeGen, Inc. - Makes SmartFirmware, a portable, easily customized ANSI C implementation of IEEE-1275 Open Firmware standard. Designed to be very easy and fast to port. Demonstration version download.
What is Open Firmware? - O-F is done in Forth.
JAL Ethernet - Open firmware, allows building low cost hardware to implement TCP/IP on ethernet networks.
OpenFirmware.org - Brief description, links to software and system makers.
FirmWorks - O-F products, services, documentation, training. The industry champion and leading provider. Invented the technology, and lead development of the IEEE 1275-1994 standard. Field proven, written in Forth.
OpenBIOS - To be free, portable BIOS implementation, 100% IEEE 1275-1994. PCs have had BIOSes since the start. Since then, most have been DOS-specific, 16-bit, and real-mode, not something a modern OS such as Linux, BSD, or Hurd can use.

Open Firmware - Open Firmware (also, OpenBoot) is a hardware-independent firmware (computer software which loads the operating system), developed by Mitch Bradley at Sun Microsystems, and used in post-NuBus PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh computers, Sun Microsystems SPARC based workstations and servers, IBM POWER systems, Pegasos systems, and the laptop designed ...
OpenBIOS - OpenBIOS is a project aiming to provide free and open source implementations of Open Firmware. It is also the name of such an implementation.
FUMO - FUMO is an Open Mobile Alliance specification for updating the firmware of mobile devices over the air.
OpenAP - OpenAP was the first open source Linux distribution released to replace the factory firmware on a number of commercially available 802.11b wireless access points based on the Eumitcom WL11000SA-N board.
FCode - FCode is a Forth programming language dialect compliant with ANS Forth. It is of interest mainly for its use in Open Firmware.