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Breaking News: '''coreboot | '''Breaking News:''' coreboot now supports two Intel i945 based notebooks, [http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot-announce/2010-May/000007.html Getac P470] and [http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot-announce/2010-January/000006.html Roda RK886EX]. Big thanks to our sponsors: | ||
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* secunet Security Networks AG | * secunet Security Networks AG | ||
* Bundesamt f�r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie (German Federal Office for Information Security, BSI) | * Bundesamt f�r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie (German Federal Office for Information Security, BSI) |
Revision as of 14:45, 16 May 2010
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. With this separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot is capable of scaling from specialized applications run directly from firmware, operating systems in Flash, and custom bootloaders to implementations of firmware standards like PCBIOS and EFI without having to carry features not necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required. We currently support 216 different mainboards. Breaking News: coreboot now supports two Intel i945 based notebooks, Getac P470 and Roda RK886EX. Big thanks to our sponsors:
Support has been developed by coresystems GmbH.
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