FirmWorks's Internet Boot ROM Features

• Supported Architectures
• BIOS Can Be Eliminated
• Kernel Loading
• File System Support
• Protocol Support
• Modular Load Format Support
• Debugging Features
• NanoForth
• Drivers
• GUI
• OS Installation Tools
• Modular Help
• Modular Chained Initialization
• Run/Debug Firmware Images Under an OS
• Net load Debugger
• Multiple Font Support
• Format-independent NVRAM Support
• Password Security
• Support for Multiple Simultaneously-active Displays
• NVRAM Caching
• NVRAM Script Full-screen Editor
• Configuration Variable Editor
• Support for 32-bit and 64-bit Memory Addressing
• GDB and DBX Interfaces
• "Dropin module" ROM Structure
• Dropin Manager
• "gunzip" Auto-inflation for Load Images and Dropin Modules
• Builtin-driver Manager
• FLASH Programming Utility
• Modular Builds Maximize Platform-independent Code Set
• Self-consistent Incremental Builds
• Self-hosting, OS-independent Builder with Integrated Tokenizer
• Small, Efficient RTAS Implementation (with self-hosted compilation)

Back To Main Index