Welcome to coreboot

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The wiki is being retired!

Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!

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).

  • 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees!
  • Fast boot times (3 seconds to Linux console)
  • Avoids the need for a slow/buggy/proprietary BIOS
  • Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code
  • Supports many mainboards, devices, and payloads

  • Desktop PCs, servers, clusters, thin clients
  • Clusters, high-performance computing
  • Embedded solutions, STBs/HTPC, appliances, terminals
  • No-moving-parts solutions (ROM chip as "disk")
  • Non-standard scenarios (e.g. FPGA in Opteron socket)

About

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Developers

Development Guidelines | Developer Manual | Coreboot v3 | Doxygen | Browse Source | Debugging | JTAG | EHCI Debug Port | Testsystem | GSoC | Ideas | Laptop | Desktops

Status

Supported Motherboards | Supported Chipsets & Devices | Build Status | Flashrom support | Superiotool support

Related Tools

Flashrom | Superiotool | Nvramtool | Buildrom | Mkelfimage | Inteltool | Msrtool

Getting Started

Downloads | Documentation | Build Tutorials | Payloads | QEMU | AMD SimNow | Confirmed Working SVN Revisions | Misc

Support

FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker | Glossary | corebootv2 Options
PLCC socket soldering fun


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