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. We currently support ca. 196 different mainboards (v3: 16, v2: 116, v1: 64, some duplicates included). 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 / OpenFirmware / OpenBIOS Linux / Windows / FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD SeaBIOS / ADLO / Memtest86 Etherboot / GPXE Bayou / Coreinfo / Tint About Find out more about coreboot. News | Press | Logo | Events | History | Screenshots & Videos | Contributors | Sponsors | Products | Clusters | Vendors Developers Get involved! Help us make coreboot better. Development Guidelines | Developer Manual | Coreboot v3 | 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

coreboot presentation @ Google Tech Talks News 2008/12/09: AMD Pistachio support 2008/12/05: NEC PowerMate 2000 support 2008/11/19: LiPPERT Cool RoadRunner LX support 2008/10/30: LiPPERT Cool SpaceRunner LX support 2008/10/28: Intel i945/ICH7, Core Duo, Kontron 986LCD-M support 2008/10/27: MSI MS-6147 support 2008/10/12: VIA pc2500e support Upcoming Events 2009/02/20-22: coreboot @ SCALE 7x 2008/12/27-30: coreboot @ 25C3 in Berlin Contact Mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org IRC: #coreboot (on irc.freenode.net)