Editing BIOS (section)

== Open-source BIOS replacements ==
The open-source community increased their effort to develop a replacement for proprietary BIOSes and their future incarnations with an open-sourced counterparts. [[Open Firmware]] was an early attempt to make an open specification for boot firmware. It was initially endorsed by IEEE in its ''IEEE 1275-1994'' standard but was withdrawn in 2005.<ref>{{Cite book |date=October 28, 1994 |title=IEEE Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware: Core Requirements and Practices |id=IEEE STD 1275-1994 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/763383 |pages=1–262 |doi=10.1109/IEEESTD.1994.89427|isbn=978-0-7381-1194-0 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=IEEE Standards Association |url=https://standards.ieee.org/ |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=IEEE Standards Association |language=en}}</ref> Later examples include the [[OpenBIOS]], [[coreboot]] and [[libreboot]] projects. [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]] provided product specifications for some chipsets using coreboot, and [[Google]] is sponsoring the project. [[Motherboard]] manufacturer [[Tyan]] offers [[coreboot]] next to the standard BIOS with their [[Opteron]] line of motherboards.