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System initialization firmware for Power systems

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2016-07-22 · latest 2023-05-31

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  1. …is so large, it even has to have a paging mechanism for its own code while running in CAR mode(!). http://github.com/open-power/hostboot With POWER8/9 since IBM moved to a self-boot model, the FSI interface is often just used to send the…
    comment by hlandau · 2023-05-31 · in Modern CPUs have a backstage cast
  2. The BMC's firmware is also open: https://github.com/open-power/hostboot Here's a blog post with some details: https://blog.jms.id.au/2015/07/openpower-firmware-stack/
    comment by cm3 · 2016-07-26 · in Unreal Engine 4 on OpenPOWER
  3. https://github.com/open-power/skiboot (runtime firmware) https://github.com/open-power/hostboot (initialisation firmware) https://github.com/open-power/occ (on-chip controller firmware) https://github.com/openbmc (BMC - currently in…
    comment by ajdlinux · 2016-07-22 · in Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian