News

FCODE suite 1.0.1 available (2006-09-21)

Once again, David Paktor, of the IBM Corporation, has contributed to the OpenBIOS FCODE suite. This release has higher test coverage, a more detailed report on one type of error, and removal of dead code and consolidation of some other code.

SUN released their OpenBOOT source code (2006-09-06)

SUN microsystems has recently released their OpenBOOT source code to the community under a BSD license. Go to their OpenSparc T1 website] to download the full archive (190MB) or check out our local mirror (1.7MB).

New FCODE suite available (2006-08-08)

David Paktor, of the IBM Corporation, has contributed some groundbreaking feature updates to the OpenBIOS FCODE utilities toke, detok and romheaders. Find details and binaries here

Sparc32 support in development (2006-05-05)

OpenBIOS has a port for 32bit Sparc CPUs now. The initially targeted milestone is to get a full firmware implementation for the QEMU project.

OpenBIOS switched to Subversion (2006-04-26)

See the development repository for more information.

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