Documentation

Build tutorials and status pages

• See Category:Tutorials for the full list of build tutorials / status pages for supported boards. Note that not all boards have such a page, yet.

coreboot v4

• LinuxBIOS on AMD64 (PDF)
• ACPI in coreboot
• Anatomy of a Failover coreboot v2 Image (obsolete since CBFS)
• CBFS
• Abuild
• AMD Geode Porting Guide
• Nvidia CK804 Porting Notes
• The EPIA-M/MII

coreboot v3 (obsolete)

• V3 Port Guide
• Notes for v3 ports
• coreboot v3

coreboot v1 (obsolete)

• Technoland SBC 710
• PCCHIPS M810LR
• SiS630

Other documentation

• Datasheets
• Creating Valid IRQ Tables
• JTAG/BSDL Guide
• VGA support
• X11 on EPIA-M
• Configuration tool manual (from freebios/Documentation/configmanual.ps)
• Project Book, Mangrove LinuxBios from Mathieu Deschamps
• coreboot glossary and a list of datasheets for each topic
• The USB EHCI Debug Port may be the easiest way to do early debugging without a legacy serial port.
• Christer Weinigel: Doing Linux programming close to the hardware (PDF)
• Doxygen generated build documentation
• Some documentation on "piggybacking" using PLCC chips: 1, 2, 3.
• Support Tools
• Booting Windows using coreboot
• Booting FreeBSD using coreboot
• Initramfs
• Artecgroup programmable LPC dongle
• API
• Soldering a socket on your board
• Section overlaps
• Confirmed working svn revisions
• Distributed and Automated Testsystem
• Ideas
• Debugging
• Laptop
• Desktops
• Misc
• Infrastructure Projects
• Random explanations
• Early SMP startup
• Serial console
• Security
• Boot Speed
• Reverse Engineering PCI Drivers
• Easy projects (Interesting and easy tasks)

Papers/articles/slides

• Breaking the Chains -- Using LinuxBIOS to Liberate Embedded x86 Processors, Jordan H. Crouse, Marc E. Jones, Ronald G. Minnich.
  • Proceedings of the Linux Symposium, June 27th-­30th, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [ pdf | pdf (local copy) ]

• LinuxBIOS - Freedom for your motherboard, Alan Carvalho de Assis
  • FISL 8.0 (8th Forum Internacional de Software Livre). [ pdf ]

• FSF is moving towards LinuxBIOS deployment (Russian article), Anton Borisov
  • SAMAG, 02-2006 (http://www.samag.ru). [ pdf | alternative PDF ]

• FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS, Li-Ta Lo, Gregory R. Watson, Ronald G. Minnich
  • Usenix, February 25 2005 (??). [ html | pdf ]

• Integrating 9load into the LinuxBIOS

• LinuxBIOS at Four, Ronald G. Minnich
  • Linux Journal

• Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS, Adam Agnew, Adam Sulmicki, Ronald Minnich, William Arbaugh
  • USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track, [ HTML ]

• Supermon: High performance monitoring for Linux clusters, Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Karen Reid, University of Toronto
  • The Fifth Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Oakland, CA, November 5-10 2001, [ ps ]

• LOBOS and LinuxBIOS, Cluster Research Brochure
  • Prepared for SC 2000, November 4-10 2000, [ pdf ]

• The Linux BIOS, Ron Minnich, James Hendricks, and Dale Webster, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • The Fourth Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 4-11 2000, [ pdf | ps ]

• LOBOS (Linux OS Boots Linux OS): Booting a Kernel in 32-bit Mode, Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • The Fourth Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 4-11 2000, [ pdf | ps ]

• Putting Linux on your motherboard, Antony Stone
  • Linux Magazine, March, 2003, Pg. 76, [ pdf ]

• Look Ma, No Bios, Oleg Goldshmidt
  • IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, July 2006, Oleg's talks, [ html | html.zip | ppt.zip | pdf ]

• A Framework for Using Processor Cache as RAM (CAR), Eswaramoorthi Nallusamy
  • University of New Mexico, [ ppt | pdf]

Books

These books do not address LinuxBIOS specifically but provide background information useful for BIOS-level programming on PC hardware.

• PCI System Architecture
• HyperTransport System Architecture
• AMD K8 Processor Architecture (white paper/book excerpt)