In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain closed. And Pine ...

For most of us, the first soldering iron we pick up to start working on electronics has essentially no features at all. Being little more than resistive heaters plugged straight into the wall with ...

As cloud computing and data center industries accelerate the adoption of open architecture and open firmware, the traditional firmware ecosystem is undergoing deep restructuring. AMI and Taiwan's ODMs ...

Although MacBooks aren't technically outfitted with BIOS, they are supported by a similar boot firmware used by Sun and Apple called Open Firmware. Open Firmware is stored is the first executed ...

I have two PowerMac G5s. Both are dual CPU (2.5GHz), liquid cooled. Both have firmware locked via Apple's Open Firmware Password utility (I know the password). Both running 10.3.9.<BR><BR>One was ...

When Apple Computer Inc. introduced Open Firmware with the first G3 Macintosh computers, it was big news because it allowed Apple to easily modify system information previously stored in ROM. This ...

With some help from readers, we have the answer (sort of) to why the Open Firmware Password Utility would not copy from the Mac OS X Install CD to our hard drive - although it would copy if booted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Oct 10, 2019, 10:44am EDT Oct 17, 2019, 02:46am EDT This article ...

Some users are finding their Macs inexplicably booting into Open Firmware mode after the update to Mac OS X 10.4.4. and press return. Your system will restart and should boot normally. If not, try ...

I've got a Lombard PBG3, which works fine but is hopelessly stuck in OS9.1. Initially I had a bad cd module that would take 5 minutes to read any CD, and then the other day I miraculously found an ...