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 206 different mainboards. 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 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 Getting Started Download coreboot and get started. Downloads | Documentation | Build Tutorials | QEMU | AMD SimNow Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support. FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker | Glossary | coreboot v2 Options

FreedomHEC 2009 talk News 2009/07/05: Mitac 6513WU support 2009/06/24: Soyo SY-6BA+ III support 2009/05/27: VIA VX800 support 2009/05/04: flashrom 0.9.0 released 2009/04/22: HP DL145 G3 support 2009/04/18: ASUS P2B-D support 2009/04/18: VIA CX700 / VT8454c support Upcoming Events 2009/06/24-27: coreboot booth at LinuxTag in Berlin.