@aho @arstechnica I wish #openfirmware had won out.

I'm surprised that there's very little open #firmware for common office #printers. I know the printers (even among brands and lines of products) are heterogeneous. But there's has got to be some #hardware #hacker who's tried writing open firmware for #HP, #Canon, and Brother printers. #OpenFirmware

@ratfactor I'm sad #OpenFirmware never caught on in the Linux space. It was a lot of fun to mess with on #OLPC machines. Certainly much more fun than grub/u-boot/libreboot/etc.

@hrw what it really lacks is #Forth
/me proceeds to hug firmly his #openfirmware and refuses to let go

@tebicat not sure if i got it right what sort of encapsulation are you talking about

but if i got it right then have them have a look at #openfirmware's device model. it's not unlike any other object oriented system, where you got classes of objects with namespaced methods, and instances of them that encapsulate private data

Coreboot aggiornato alla 4.19, speriamo che l'esigenza di ricorrere al blob MRC.bin presto diventi un ricordo, che scaricare giga di roba per un file di pochi KB é uno spreco totale.
P.S: tips di configurazioni sono ben accetti.
#coreboot #openfirmware #openbios

I mean, #OpenFirmware is so obviously superior. Grargh!

PC #BIOS may be legacy and #UEFI may be the new hotness, but #OpenFirmware will always be ok in my book.

@tebicat CForth and OpenFirmware!

The #OpenFirmware [1] #Forth (used to be called "forthmacs"?) is a very good one. It's 100% native (no C there), has fancy things like indentation and syntax highlighting and shit and the #OLPC
Forth lessons [2] work with it.

Now that it's not used as a firmware in new platforms it is falling a bit behind. You need 32-bit toolchain to build the Linux loader, but the kernel has no C in it.

CForth [3] is done by the same person. It should be similar, but takes a shortcut at platform support by just using C libraries. Which is practical, but not beautiful.

[1] https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware
[2] https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons
[3] https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth

Due to lack of other optical drives I needed to dig up the old #powerbook to burn the custom #MacOS9 CD.

For some reason #openfirmware didn't like the monitor or the resolution on the monitor so can't get the #MacMiniG4 to boot from a usb stick.

#VintageMac #retrocomputing #Apple

https://genodians.org/nfeske/2022-03-29-pinephone-forth# #FORTH now ! next #OpenFirmware for #PinePhone ? cc: @lanodan

Nobody is here forever. Yet some people still waste the very precious and limited time on things like this:
https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware/pull/9
#openfirmware #forth

New Bonobo WS Linux laptop released by #system76 https://buff.ly/2QkXTaH #Linux #laptop #hardware #openfirmware

System76’s New Oryx Pro Linux Laptop Comes with Open Firmware, Hybrid Nvidia Graphics

https://9to5linux.com/system76s-new-oryx-pro-linux-laptop-comes-with-open-firmware-hybrid-nvidia-graphics

#Linuxlaptop #System76 #OryxPro #openfirmware

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1SD1/intro.html

Sometimes I discover how certain things work and I end up wanting expensive things.

#openfirmware #ownercontrolled #power9

Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc - #Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
https://www.redox-os.org/news/focusing-on-rustc/
#rust #foss #openfirmware #kernel

Necuno Solutions / Necuno: privacy Linux smartphone 100% open firmware, continues to inform.

A company focusing on information security and privacy. Their main goal is to work towards more open, transparent and secure mobile ecosystem. No more black code and binary blobs in the hardware and software.

"Open hardware is secure hardware".

==> https://necunos.com/blog/open-hardware-is-secure-hardware/
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#Linux #mobile #Necuno #NecunoSolutions #NecunOS #opensource #openfirmware #openhardware #privacy #security

Necuno Solutions / Necuno: privacy Linux smartphone 100% open firmware.

A company focusing on information security and privacy. Their main goal is to work towards more open, transparent and secure mobile ecosystem. No more black code and binary blobs in the hardware and software.

Securing the freedom of mobile, part 2 ---> https://necunos.com/blog/securing-the-freedom-of-mobile-part2/
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#Linux #mobile #Necuno #NecunoSolutions #NecunOS #opensource #openfirmware #openhardware #privacy #security