Difference between revisions of "Firmware"
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* [[Common Firmware Environment]] (CFE) | * [[Common Firmware Environment]] (CFE) | ||
* [[Cobalt Firmware]] | * [[Cobalt Firmware]] | ||
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* [[IDT_SIM|IDT/sim, IDT/boot]] | * [[IDT_SIM|IDT/sim, IDT/boot]] | ||
* [http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/mmon/ mmon] tiny monitor program for MIPS VR4300 | * [http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/mmon/ mmon] tiny monitor program for MIPS VR4300 | ||
Revision as of 13:07, 16 August 2012
Firmware is the system software residing in a non-volatile memory, typically a ROM, EPROM or today often a flash memory. What is called firmware for the MIPS systems is relatively close to what is called the BIOS for the PC sector.
There is a small number of firmware implementations in use on MIPS only however in a large number of variants.
- ARC
- Common Firmware Environment (CFE)
- Cobalt Firmware
- CoLo
- IDT/sim, IDT/boot
- mmon tiny monitor program for MIPS VR4300
- PMON
- PMON 2000
- RedBoot
- U-Boot
- YAMON
External Links
- Firmware Wikipedia article on firmware
- Flash memory Wikipedia article on flash memory
