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"lower-level BIOS""lower-level BIOS"Posted Nov 18, 2006 17:40 UTC (Sat) by hollis (subscriber, #6768)In reply to: Open Firmware is now free by salimma Parent article: Open Firmware is now free
Open Firmware comes in ROM, so in that sense there is no "separate" firmware.
Of course, inside Open Firmware you have different components: the Forth interpreter and the low-level firmware (responsible for initializing the memory controller, discovering PCI devices, etc) are obviously separate. As a systems vendor you would naturally use the same Forth interpreter and combine it with a different low-level firmware for each system.
By the way, "BIOS" is just the name for the standard PC firmware interface. The generic term is "firmware". :)
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