OPENFIRMWARE


OPENFIRMWARE

Understanding Device Drivers
In thisr?ole, it is analogous to the device tree provided by OpenFirmware, although it has additional uses. The guest in Domain 0 exports a tree containing the devices available to
http://www.informit.com/content/images/9780132349710/samplechapter/013234971X_06.pdf

Planning for Virtualization
more LPARS expect overhead to be at least 2gb memory Power5 Memory ?In POWER5 you always have a Hypervisor ?Some memory is reserved for LPAR use-Hypervisor and Global Openfirmware
http://www.circle4.com/papers/ukvirtual.pdf

Securing Mac OS X
Securing Mac OS X - Presentation Slides 17 OpenFirmware Password ?Enable it with with Apple's GUI: http://www.apple.com/downloads/Mac OS X/apple/openfirmwarepassword. html ?Enable it
http://www.davidsalomon.name/CompSec/auxiliary/securing_mac_os_x_present.pdf

Installing SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP1 on an
Auto-installation over network via OpenFirmware..19 Setup of the install server
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/literature/pdf/bctrjs20sles91install090805.pdf

Rosetta Stone for Unix
m normal nvram dg_sysctl | grep BOOTPATH? setboot bootadmin (at boot PROM) stm nvram printenv/setenv (at command monitor) /dev/nvram (if you have it) hwclock eeprom openprom (on OpenFirmware
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/maintenance/unix-rosetta.pdf

Proceedings of the Linux Symposium
vnet.ibm.com Abstract As part of the merger of 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPCsup-port in the kernel, the decision was to also standardize the firmware interface by using an OpenFirmware
http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/likely2-reprint.pdf

Practical Mac OSX Insecurity
The whole range of security implications is yet to be explored. 3.4 OpenFirmware An OpenFirmware password can beset in order to protect your Mac from booting from a dierent than the
http://secretweaponlabs.com/words/wp-content/uploads/os_x_insecurity.pdf

A Bit About Forth
24 Curiousity or Language? Who uses this? OpenFirmware (every Macintosh since1996?)until 2006? PostScript allegedly inspired by Forth Embedded firmware Astronomerssince the 1960
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L03_Forth.pdf

RAID on Linux on POWER
Before proceeding into the actual boot process, the following terms will prove to be relevant: * PReP Partition - A type of disk partition (type 41) that OpenFirmware is capable of
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux/l-pow-LoPRaid.pdf

Ultrastar A7K1000
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Page 3 version 1.0 Operating Systems Apple Mac OS X Apple Mac OS X 10.4 Apple OpenFirmware interface Debian Sarge 3.1 Flexstar Perseus HP Linux on USB
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/DD192CFF6F1F4733862572C600172FB5/$file/A7K1000_com3.pdf

Amsterdam, Monday - 7 July 2002
I have OpenFirmware running so they can't wipe my drive or in fact even access it without my passwords, and the screensaver will activate asap and from there, or if it goes to sleep
http://www.davesag.com/writing/monday.pdf

Put a penguin in your pocket
When a machine is switched off/on every evening/morning, a small OpenFirmware (OF) program upgrades from OF and then installs the kernel. It not only upgrades the kernel, but also
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/white_paper/PLDC_TA_GENESIAVA.pdf?fsrch=1

High End Computing with K42
Frameworks 1 ? k42. sh tool from LBNL, automates installation and use of K42-Configure /prep/install console machine-Download, patch and compile of K42-Configure OpenFirmware on
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~fastos/06meeting/k42_May_2006.pdf

My computer is bigger than yours!
13/23 Hardware InventorypSeries Linux ?Copyof OpenFirmware (OF) device-tree in /proc/device-tree. ?ibm,vpdpropertiesfor PCI 2.0/2.1 devices. ?Collection easy: find. ?Storage
http://meltin.net/people/martin/publications/bigger-slides.pdf

An analysis of Apple's disk encryption system
Firewire ? DMA firewire attacks allow for reading and writing of all system memory ? Possible to own people with an iPod ? Possible to defend against with OpenFirmware or with a
http://crypto.nsa.org/vilefault/23C3-VileFault.pdf

AN2738:Genesi Pegasos II Firmware
The user may type in any Open Firmware command after the ok prompt. 4.1General Information This version of Open Firmware is an implementation of the OpenFirmware IEEE Standard 1275
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2738.pdf

-The Worldsmost portable Operating System- Overview of Supported ...
Sony'sm68kbased'NETWORK STATION'series newsmipsmipsSony'sMIPSbased'NETWORK STATION'series next68k m68k NeXT 68k'black'hardware ofppc powerpcGeneric OpenFirmware compliant PowerPCmachines
http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/NetBSD/poster.pdf

QLx40xx FCode for Solaris SPARC Readme File
For the device-node properties to reflect the latest iSCSI parameters, reset the OpenFirmware system by issuing the reset-all command at the OpenFirmware ok prompt. QLx40xx FCode for
http://download.qlogic.com/boot_code/60266/Readme_Fcode1-09.pdf

MASTER THESIS
of the UltraSPARC processor. .. 25 4.1 Fragmentof Linux header used in the loader. .. 34 4.2 Exampleof canonical copy of the OpenFirmware device tree
http://www.helenos.eu/doc/theses/jj-thesis.pdf

Installation
dev/ttyc0 in the file /etc/ttys , the keyboard and monitor can still be used for normal login operations, just not console access. MacPPChardware, which uses OpenFirmware, is quite
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/searchSecurity/downloads/SecureArchitectures_Ch03.pdf

L4Ka::Pistachio PowerPC Implementation
2.2 SoftwarePTE Encoding .. 3 2.3 AddressSpace Layout .. 4 2.4 BATRegister Allocation .. 5 3 Platform 5 3.1 OpenFirmware
http://l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/powerpc/ppc.pdf

Mark Kettenis kettenis@openbsd.org
2007/12/02 UltraSPARC/sun4u Architecture Superscalar Big-Endian MMU withcontext 8 register windows No hardware 128-bit quad FP support VIS multimedia instructions OpenFirmware 4
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf

All t ogether
The bless command modifies OpenFirmware or EFI and defines which system folder should be used for the next boot. If you want some more information on the bless command, bring up the
http://rogue.sdsu.edu/netboot/chapters/10%20Bringing%20It%20All%20Together.pdf

An In-depth Study of NetBSD Bootstrapping and a Few Speedy ...
The computer provides OpenFirmware 2.0.1. The 3 SCSI devices used in this project are the following: Device Type Model SCSI ID disk Seagate ST34572N 1 CDROM Plextor PX-8XCS 3 disk Seagate
http://www.daemonnews.org/200009/sb.pdf

Hacking the Kernel
OpenFirmware - based upon the FORTH language and a bytecode-type implementation which predates Java - is used to actually boot a PowerPC or POWER system by providing an in-memory
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2005/linux-user/power-to-the-people/spread.pdf

Wolfbytes 45
After that, the operating system takes over. Apple used OpenFirmware (an open source specification created by Sun) to start up its previous generation of Macs.
http://www.needhamco.com/Research/Documents/20060307_Wolfbytes_45._Build_It_and_They_Will_Come.pdf

412 Project Suggestions (Overview)
21 "Platform" Projects "Odd boxes" PowerPC Kuro Box PegasosPPC.com "Open Desktop Workstation" OpenFirmware+PPCwe have some code like that CerfCube - 3-inch cube with a PPC machine
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L02_Projects.pdf

SmartFirmware User Manual
and how to use it to manipulate device trees, view and set parameter values, and to control boot-up procedures. Basics SmartFirmware is an implementation of the OpenFirmware IEEE
http://www.pegasosppc.com/manuals/SFUserManual.pdf

BootX: The Mac OSXBootloader
BootX: The Mac OSXBootloader Louis Gerbarg The Macintosh has usedamoreorless unchanged boot mechanism for over a decade. Even with initial introduction of OpenFirmware, little
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gerbal/BootX.pdf