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. With this separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale 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: secunet Security Networks AG Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie (German Federal Office for Information Security, BSI) Support has been developed by coresystems GmbH. More... Benefits 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees! Fast boot times (3 seconds to Linux console) Supports many mainboards, chipsets, and payloads More... Use Cases Desktop PCs and servers Clusters Embedded solutions More... Payloads FILO / GRUB2 Linux / Windows / FreeBSD Etherboot About Find out more about coreboot. Press | Logo | History | Screenshots/Videos | Contributors | Sponsors | Products | Clusters | Vendors Developers Get involved! Help us make coreboot better. Development Guidelines | Developer Manual | Doxygen | Browse Source | GSoC | SerialICE | Flag Days Status Find out whether your hardware is already supported. Supported Boards | Supported Chipsets | Build Status Related Tools Tools and libraries related to coreboot. Flashrom | Superiotool | Nvramtool | Buildrom | Mkelfimage | Inteltool | Msrtool | Ectool | Hardware tools Getting Started Download coreboot and get started. Build HOWTO | Downloads | Documentation | Board Tutorials | QEMU | AMD SimNow Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support. FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker | Glossary | coreboot Options

make menuconfig in coreboot News 2010/05/14: GIGABYTE GA-6BXE support 2010/05/08: Wyse S50 support 2010/04/23: AMD Tilapia / DDR3 support 2010/04/19: Nokia IP530 support 2010/03/15: AMD RS780/SB700 support 2010/03/05: ASUS P2B-LS support 2010/01/17: Roda RK886EX (Rocky III+) support Upcoming Events 2010/04/09: Google Summer of Code 2010 student application deadline! 2010/06/09-12: coreboot exhibits at LinuxTag in Berlin