Welcome to coreboot

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. The 2008 coreboot summit in Denver is underway (April 3 – 5)! See Current events for more information. Thanks to AMD for being a Silver supporter of the 2008 coreboot summit! Benefits 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 Runs in 32-Bit protected mode almost from the start Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code Supports many mainboards, devices, and payloads Further features: netboot, serial console, remote flashing, ... Use Cases Standard desktop computers and servers Clusters, high-performance computing Set-Top-Boxes, thin clients Embedded solutions, appliances, terminals Small form factor computers, Home-theater PCs No-moving-parts solutions (ROM chip as "disk") Non-standard scenarios (e.g. FPGA in Opteron socket) Payloads Linux FILO GRUB2 Windows (ADLO) FreeBSD (ADLO) OpenBSD (ADLO) memtest86 OpenBIOS Open Firmware SmartFirmware GNUFI (UEFI) Etherboot Plan 9 coreinfo About Find out more about coreboot. News | Press | Events | History | Screenshots & Videos | Contributors | Sponsors | Products | Clusters Developers Get involved! Help us make coreboot better. Development Guidelines | Developer Manual | Doxygen | Browse Source | JTAG | EHCI Debug Port | Testsystem | GSoC | Ideas | Laptop | Desktops Status Find out whether your hardware is already supported. Supported Motherboards | Supported Chipsets & Devices | Build Status | Flashrom support | Superiotool support Related Tools Tools and libraries related to coreboot. Flashrom | Superiotool | Nvramtool | Buildrom | Libpayload | Mkelfimage Getting Started Download coreboot and get started. Downloads | Documentation | Build Tutorials | Payloads | QEMU | AMD SimNow | Confirmed Working SVN Revisions | Misc Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support. FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker | Glossary | corebootv2 Options

An empty PLCC socket. News 2008/04/04: Silicon Mechanics to ship servers with coreboot preinstalled 2008/04/03: coreboot Summit Denver 2008/03/29: TeleVideo TC7020 support 2008/03/17: MSI MS-6119 support 2008/03/17: Intel 3100 / Mt.Arvon support 2008/03/09: RCA RM4100 support 2008/03/07: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe support 2008/02/20: MSI MS-7135 (K8N Neo3) support 2008/01/27: Abit BE6-II V2.0 support 2008/01/12: LinuxBIOS is coreboot now Contact Mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org IRC: #coreboot (on irc.freenode.net)