Projects tagged ‘firmware’

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. It runs on a wide range of different models.

OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This ... [More] frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. [Less]

Open Source Linux based firmware for OTS routers

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of ... [More] hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload, for example a Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2, OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86. [Less]

The CHDK add-on implements new features like RAW, battery indicator, live histogram (RGB/luminance), zebra mode (blinking areas of over-/underexposure), DOF calculator, scripts (intervalometer ... [More] , exposure/focus/... bracketing etc.), Tv, Av & ISO overrides, text reader, file browser, calendar, games and much more. There are now several different builds, implementing features assisting taking 3D-Stereo photos, motion detection etc. The CHDK firmware add-on does not touch the original firmware of your camera. It is an additional program which gets loaded into the memory of the camera. [Less]

Open Source Open Firmware implementation. The OpenBIOS project provides you with most free and open source Open Firmware implementations available. Here you find several implementations of IEEE ... [More] 1275-1994 (Referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware. Among its features, Open Firmware provides an instruction set independent device interface. This can be used to boot the operating system from expansion cards without native initialization code. It is Open Firmware's goal to work on all common platforms, like x86, AMD64, PowerPC, ARM and Mips. With its flexible and modular design, Open Firmware targets servers, workstations and embedded systems, where a sane and unified firmware is a crucial design goal and reduces porting efforts noticably. [Less]

The goal of this project is to have a LGPL'd PC BIOS for Plex86, Bochs and Qemu. Also long term plan is making it safe for use on real hardware.

FreeWRT is a meta GNU/Linux distribution for embedded systems. In this context "meta" means, you can build the complete distribution from source. FreeWRT is meant to be an appliance development kit ... [More] (ADK) especially designed for embedded system developers and advanced users. [Less]

flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It's often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images.

Adds OpenVPN and a VPN GUI to the popular Tomato firmware.