... on the OLPC laptops. This is probably due mostly to the influence of the OLPC firmware lead Mitch Bradley, who invented Open Firmware. That platform is probably not going to create an OFW job market, since it has no expansion capability at the firmware level (just USB and SD). It would be interesting to hear the history of EFI....

... reason or another the coalition broke down. Did it? Apple switched to EFI for their Intel-based machines, but did Sun, IBM, or Motorola abandon Open Firmware? I read a long time ago that IBM was withdrawing, but I haven't verified it. I have read that Sun moved to EFI, but Wikipedia ...

... but did Sun, IBM, or Motorola abandon Open Firmware? I have read that Sun moved...for their Opteron-based boxes, though. Concerning Apple: the main problem with Open Firmware is that some expansion cards for...called by the BIOS on such PCs; Open Firmware could not work with such ... ROMs had to contain Fcode on Open Firmware systems. Since the Intel/AMD market was larger, the Fcode versions ...