Open Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...
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In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware. For a relatively simple device, firmware may perform all...
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and open-source. Magic Lantern was originally written for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II by Trammell Hudson in 2009 after he reverse engineered its firmware. He...
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Open-source firmware is firmware that is published under an open-source license. It can be contrasted with proprietary firmware, which is published under...
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UEFI (redirect from Open Virtual Machine Firmware)
proprietary software, UEFI is an open standard maintained by an industry consortium. Intel developed the original Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) specification...
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and patents. Alternatives to proprietary firmware may be free (libre) or open-source. Proprietary firmware (and especially the microcode) is much more...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(protocol). 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...
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