Genesi is pleased to announce that it will provide under license it's hardware abstraction layer and IEEE 1275 compliant Open Firmware for Marvell Discovery V Development Boards.

The Genesi Firmware approach brings with it immediate GNU/Linux kernel support as well as support from a growing number Linux distributions. MorphOS is also supported and an OpenSolaris Power Architecture™ port is also underway. The Genesi Firmware has been and continues to be used to support Power Architecture-based platforms utilizing the Discovery II and the Discovery III northbridges.

The Genesi Firmware enables the vast software resources currently available on the Open Desktop Workstation to be shared with other Power Architecture-based platforms. The Open Desktop Workstation is a CHRP compliant platform based on the PegasosPPC and composed of standard PC components.