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This page contains information on how to get started building and installing coreboot, as well as build tutorials for various specific motherboards.
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This page is a collection of '''coreboot-related documentation resources''', HOWTOs, development notes, articles and papers.
  
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== Build tutorials and status pages ==
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* See [[:Category:Tutorials]] for the full list of build tutorials / status pages for supported boards. Note that not all boards have such a page, yet.
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* [[ACPI]]
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== coreboot related documentation ==
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=== coreboot v4 ===
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* [http://www.openfirmware.info/data/docs/LinuxBIOS-AMD64.pdf LinuxBIOS on AMD64 (PDF)]
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* [[ACPI in coreboot]]
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* [[Anatomy of a Failover coreboot v2 Image]] (obsolete since [[CBFS]])
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* [[CBFS]]
 
* [[CBFS]]
 
* [[Abuild]]
 
* [[Abuild]]
 
* [[AMD Geode Porting Guide]]
 
* [[AMD Geode Porting Guide]]
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* [[AMD Family 10h Porting Guide]]
 
* [[Nvidia CK804 Porting Notes]]
 
* [[Nvidia CK804 Porting Notes]]
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* [[The EPIA-M/MII]]
 
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=== coreboot v3 (obsolete) ===
 
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* [http://www.coreboot.org/images/0/0a/Newboot.pdf V3 Port Guide]
 
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* [[Notes for v3 ports]]
 
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* [[coreboot v3]]
 
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=== coreboot v1 (obsolete) ===
 
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* [[Technoland SBC 710]]
 
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* [[PCCHIPS M810LR]]
 
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* [[SiS630]]
 
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=== Other documentation ===
 
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* [[Datasheets]]
 
* [[Datasheets]]
 
* [[Creating Valid IRQ Tables]]
 
* [[Creating Valid IRQ Tables]]
 
* [[JTAG/BSDL Guide]]
 
* [[JTAG/BSDL Guide]]
 
* [[VGA support]]
 
* [[VGA support]]
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* [[X11 on EPIA-M]]
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* [[Glossary]]
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* [http://www.linuxbios.org/data/docs/configmanual.ps Configuration tool manual] (from freebios/Documentation/configmanual.ps)
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* [[EHCI Debug Port]]
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* [http://www.linuxbios.org/data/lbdoc Project Book, Mangrove LinuxBios] from Mathieu Deschamps
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* [[Glossary|coreboot glossary]] and a list of datasheets for each topic
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* The USB [[EHCI Debug Port]] may be the easiest way to do early debugging without a legacy serial port.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040414101354/http://www.lysator.liu.se/upplysning/fa/linuxbios.pdf Christer Weinigel: Doing Linux programming close to the hardware] (PDF)
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* [http://snapshots.linuxbios.org/docs/doxygen/ Doxygen generated build documentation]
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* Some documentation on "piggybacking" using PLCC chips: [[:Image:Tivo_prom_piggy_back_socket_installation.pdf|1]], [[:Image:How_to_build_the_tivo_prom_piggy_socket.pdf|2]], [[:Image:Tivo_piggyback_prom.pdf|3]].
 
* Some documentation on "piggybacking" using PLCC chips: [[:Image:Tivo_prom_piggy_back_socket_installation.pdf|1]], [[:Image:How_to_build_the_tivo_prom_piggy_socket.pdf|2]], [[:Image:Tivo_piggyback_prom.pdf|3]].
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* [[Support Tools]]
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* [[Windows|Booting Windows using coreboot]]
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* [[Booting Windows using coreboot]]
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* [[FreeBSD|Booting FreeBSD using coreboot]]
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* [[Booting FreeBSD using coreboot]]
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* [[Mini HOWTO: using a CF card for testing and developing coreboot]]
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* [[CMOS.layout guide]]
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* [[Initramfs]]
 
* [[Initramfs]]
 
* [[Artecgroup programmable LPC dongle]]
 
* [[Artecgroup programmable LPC dongle]]
 
* [[API]]
 
* [[API]]
 
* [[Soldering a socket on your board]]
 
* [[Soldering a socket on your board]]
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* [[Section overlaps]]
 
 
* [[Confirmed working svn revisions]]
 
* [[Confirmed working svn revisions]]
 
* [[Distributed and Automated Testsystem]]
 
* [[Distributed and Automated Testsystem]]
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* [[Misc]]
 
* [[Misc]]
 
* [[Infrastructure Projects]]
 
* [[Infrastructure Projects]]
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* [[Random explanations]]
 
 
* [[Early SMP startup]]
 
* [[Early SMP startup]]
 
* [[Serial console]]
 
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* [[Boot Speed]]
 
* [[Boot Speed]]
 
* [[Reverse Engineering PCI Drivers]]
 
* [[Reverse Engineering PCI Drivers]]
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* [[Easy projects]] (Interesting and easy tasks)
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* [[Easy projects]]
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* [[Firmware Comparison]]
  
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== External articles ==
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* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7170 LinuxBIOS at Four]
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== Obsolete documentation ==
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* [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Integrating_9load_into_the_linuxbios/index.html Integrating 9load into the LinuxBIOS]
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* [http://blog.perlplexity.org/?p=13 How to get the Iwill DK8-HTX running with LinuxBIOS]
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This is a list of obsolete or heavily outdated documentation, any information here should be used with care.
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'''coreboot v3 (obsolete):'''
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* [http://www.coreboot.org/images/0/0a/Newboot.pdf V3 Port Guide]
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* [[Notes for v3 ports]]
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* [[coreboot v3]]
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'''coreboot v1 (obsolete):'''
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* [[Technoland SBC 710]]
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* [[PCCHIPS M810LR]]
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* [[SiS630]]
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'''Other:'''
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* [[Anatomy of a Failover coreboot v2 Image]] (obsolete since [[CBFS]])
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* [[The EPIA-M/MII]]
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* [[X11 on EPIA-M]]
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* [http://www.linuxbios.org/data/docs/configmanual.ps Configuration tool manual] (from freebios/Documentation/configmanual.ps)
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* [http://www.linuxbios.org/data/lbdoc Project Book, Mangrove LinuxBios] from Mathieu Deschamps
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* [http://www.openfirmware.info/data/docs/LinuxBIOS-AMD64.pdf LinuxBIOS on AMD64 (PDF)]
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* [[Viewvc]]
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== Coreboot Porting Guides ==
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[[Motherboard Porting Guide]]
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[[AGESA Porting Guide]]
  
 
== Papers/articles/slides ==
 
== Papers/articles/slides ==
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* '''FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS''', Li-Ta Lo, Gregory R. Watson, Ronald G. Minnich
 
* '''FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS''', Li-Ta Lo, Gregory R. Watson, Ronald G. Minnich
 
** Usenix, February 25 2005 (??). [ [http://www.linuxbios.org/data/vgabios/ html] | [[Media:vgabios.pdf|pdf]] ]
 
** Usenix, February 25 2005 (??). [ [http://www.linuxbios.org/data/vgabios/ html] | [[Media:vgabios.pdf|pdf]] ]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040414101354/http://www.lysator.liu.se/upplysning/fa/linuxbios.pdf Doing Linux programming close to the hardware] (PDF),  Christer Weinigel
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* [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Integrating_9load_into_the_linuxbios/index.html Integrating 9load into the LinuxBIOS]
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* '''[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7170 LinuxBIOS at Four]''', Ronald G. Minnich
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** Linux Journal
  
 
* '''Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS''', Adam Agnew, Adam Sulmicki, Ronald Minnich, William Arbaugh
 
* '''Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS''', Adam Agnew, Adam Sulmicki, Ronald Minnich, William Arbaugh

Revision as of 22:44, 15 December 2012

This page is a collection of coreboot-related documentation resources, HOWTOs, development notes, articles and papers.

Obsolete documentation

This is a list of obsolete or heavily outdated documentation, any information here should be used with care.

coreboot v3 (obsolete):

coreboot v1 (obsolete):

Other:

Coreboot Porting Guides

Motherboard Porting Guide AGESA Porting Guide

Papers/articles/slides

  • Breaking the Chains -- Using LinuxBIOS to Liberate Embedded x86 Processors, Jordan H. Crouse, Marc E. Jones, Ronald G. Minnich.
    • Proceedings of the Linux Symposium, June 27th-­30th, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [ pdf | pdf (local copy) ]
  • LinuxBIOS - Freedom for your motherboard, Alan Carvalho de Assis
    • FISL 8.0 (8th Forum Internacional de Software Livre). [ pdf ]
  • FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS, Li-Ta Lo, Gregory R. Watson, Ronald G. Minnich
    • Usenix, February 25 2005 (??). [ html | pdf ]
  • Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS, Adam Agnew, Adam Sulmicki, Ronald Minnich, William Arbaugh
    • USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track, [ HTML ]
  • Supermon: High performance monitoring for Linux clusters, Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Karen Reid, University of Toronto
  • LOBOS and LinuxBIOS, Cluster Research Brochure
    • Prepared for SC 2000, November 4-10 2000, [ pdf ]
  • Putting Linux on your motherboard, Antony Stone
  • A Framework for Using Processor Cache as RAM (CAR), Eswaramoorthi Nallusamy
    • University of New Mexico, [ ppt | pdf]

Books

These books do not address LinuxBIOS specifically but provide background information useful for BIOS-level programming on PC hardware.

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