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. More... 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 Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code Supports many mainboards, devices, and payloads More... Use Cases 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) More... Payloads FILO / GRUB2 Linux / Windows / FreeBSD / OpenBSD OpenFirmware et. al. Etherboot Memtest86 About Find out more about coreboot. News | Press | Events | History | Screenshots & Videos | Contributors | Sponsors | Products | Clusters | Vendors 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 | Notes for v3 ports 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 | Papers on memory training Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support. FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker | Glossary | corebootv2 Options

coreboot tint payload News 2008/09/13: coreboot @ Slackathon 2008 2008/08/04: ASI MB-5BLGP support 2008/07/01: The new logo is announced 2008/07/01: OpenExpo and Hackontest 2008/06/27: A-Trend ATC-6240 support 2008/05/28: coreboot @ LinuxTag 2008/05/19: VIA EPIA-CN support Contact Mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org IRC: #coreboot (on irc.freenode.net)