Open Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...

In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware. For a relatively simple device, firmware may perform all...

Open-source firmware is firmware that is published under an open-source license. It can be contrasted with proprietary firmware, which is published under...

Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, /ˈjuːɪfaɪ/ or as an acronym) is a specification that defines the architecture of the platform firmware used for booting...

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...

and patents. Alternatives to proprietary firmware may be free (libre) or open-source. Proprietary firmware (and especially the microcode) is much more...

Custom firmware, also known as aftermarket firmware, is an unofficial new or modified version of firmware created by third parties on devices such as video...

AIX. On the other hand, many logic board components, especially the Open Firmware boot ROM, are similar to the "Tsunami" board used in the Power Macintosh...

counterparts, it boots via Open Firmware. For hard disk drive booting the Open Firmware implementation called SmartFirmware requires an RDB boot partition...

mode). It can be used to flash a custom recovery firmware image (as opposed to the stock recovery firmware image) to a Samsung Android device. Odin is also...