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* 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees! | * 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees! | ||
* Fast boot times (3 seconds to Linux console) | * Fast boot times (3 seconds to Linux console) | ||
* Avoids the need for a slow/buggy/proprietary BIOS | <!-- * Avoids the need for a slow/buggy/proprietary BIOS --> | ||
<!-- * Runs in 32-Bit protected mode almost from the start --> | <!-- * Runs in 32-Bit protected mode almost from the start --> | ||
* Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code | <!-- * Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code --> | ||
* Supports many [[Supported Motherboards|mainboards]], [[Supported Chipsets and Devices| | * Supports many [[Supported Motherboards|mainboards]], [[Supported Chipsets and Devices|chipsets]], and [[payloads]] | ||
<!-- * Further features: netboot, serial console, remote flashing, ... --> | <!-- * Further features: netboot, serial console, remote flashing, ... --> | ||
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* Desktop PCs | * Desktop PCs and servers | ||
* [[Clusters]] | * [[Clusters]] | ||
<!-- * Set-Top-Boxes, thin clients --> | <!-- * Set-Top-Boxes, thin clients --> | ||
* Embedded solutions | * Embedded solutions | ||
<!-- * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form_factor Small form factor computers], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC Home-theater PCs] --> | <!-- * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form_factor Small form factor computers], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC Home-theater PCs] --> | ||
* No-moving-parts solutions (ROM chip as "disk") | <!-- * No-moving-parts solutions (ROM chip as "disk") --> | ||
* Non-standard scenarios (e.g. FPGA in Opteron socket) | <!-- * Non-standard scenarios (e.g. FPGA in Opteron socket) --> | ||
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* [[FILO]] / [http://grub.enbug.org/CoreBoot GRUB2] / [[OpenFirmware]] / [[OpenBIOS]] | * [[FILO]] / [http://grub.enbug.org/CoreBoot GRUB2] <!-- / [[OpenFirmware]] / [[OpenBIOS]] --> | ||
* [[Linux]] / [[Booting Windows using coreboot|Windows]] / [[Booting FreeBSD using coreboot|FreeBSD]] / [[Coreboot and NetBSD|NetBSD]] / [http://openbsd.org/ OpenBSD] | * [[Linux]] / [[Booting Windows using coreboot|Windows]] / [[Booting FreeBSD using coreboot|FreeBSD]]<!-- / [[Coreboot and NetBSD|NetBSD]] / [http://openbsd.org/ OpenBSD]--> | ||
* [[SeaBIOS]] / [[Memtest86]] | * [[Etherboot]] | ||
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* [[Etherboot]] / [[GPXE]] | * [[Etherboot]] / [[GPXE]] | ||
* [[Bayou]] / [[Coreinfo]] / [[Tint]] / [[Libpayload]] | * [[Bayou]] / [[Coreinfo]] / [[Tint]] / [[Libpayload]]--> | ||
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Revision as of 00:07, 16 April 2009
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coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload. We currently support ca. 200 different mainboards (v3: 16, v2: 120, v1: 64, some duplicates included).
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