Mitch Bradley is the inventor of Open Firmware

Open Firmware

Open Firmware, or OpenBoot in Sun Microsystems parlance, is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . It originated at Sun, and has been used by Sun, Apple, IBM, and most other non-x86 PCI chipset...

, which was first developed at Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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 in 1988 and used by Sun, Apple, IBM and the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO.
Bradley served as the chairman of the Open Firmware Working Group which created the IEEE 1275 standard.

In 2006 Sun Microsystems made their proprietary version Open Boot open source and Bradley made Open Firmware open source. Also, he began porting Open Firmware to the OLPC XO-1

OLPC XO-1

The XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, and 2B1, is an inexpensive subnotebook computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express...

machine. He is currently responsible for the firmware at OLPC.

External links

• 1275 Open Firmware Home Page
• http://www.firmworks.com/
• http://www.openfirmware.info/
• http://www.openbios.org/
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/802/802-3242/html/TOC.html SUN's SPARC OBP documentation
• http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/1275.ps.gz The last IEEE 1275 text
• http://www.openbios.org/viewvc/?root=OpenFirmware Firmworks OpenFirmware source code
• http://www.openbios.org/viewvc/?root=SmartFirmware Codegen SmartFirmware source code
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OFW_FAQ OFW FAQ on OLPC Wiki
• http://wiki.auroralinux.net/wiki/OBP Aurora SPARC Linux OBP reference guide