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 what is called a 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 230 different mainboards. Is your PC / server / laptop / mainboard supported? Check out our Support page to find out. coreboot now has a git mirror. 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, servers, laptops Clusters Embedded solutions More... Payloads SeaBIOS / FILO / GRUB2 / ... Linux / Windows / FreeBSD / NetBSD / ... Etherboot / GPXE / ... About Find out more about coreboot. Press | Logo | History | Screenshots/Videos | Contributors | Sponsors | Products | Vendors Developers Get involved! Help us make coreboot better. Development Guidelines | Developer Manual | Doxygen | Browse Source | GSoC | Flag Days Status Find out whether your hardware is already supported. Supported Boards | Supported Chipsets | Board Status Pages | Build Status Related Tools Tools and libraries related to coreboot. Flashrom | Superiotool | Nvramtool | Buildrom | Mkelfimage | Inteltool | Msrtool | Ectool | Hardware tools | Abuild | SerialICE Getting Started Download coreboot and get started. Build HOWTO | Downloads | Documentation | QEMU | AMD SimNow | Build from Windows Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support. FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker | Glossary | coreboot Options

make menuconfig in coreboot News 2011/03/27: AMD releases C32/RS56x0/SB5100 coreboot support on H8SCM platform 2011/02/28: AMD blogs about coreboot 2011/02/22: Thinkpad X60 now supported 2011/02/14: AMD submits coreboot support for AMD Embedded G-Series Platforms 2010/12/18: Intel Poulsbo/SCH/Atom & iWave iW-RainboW-G6 support 2010/12/13: ASUS M2N-E support 2010/12/06: ASUS M4A78-EM support Upcoming Events 2011 Google Summer of Code {{#widget:Ohloh Project|id=coreboot|type=partner_badge}} {{#widget:Ohloh Project|id=coreboot|type=cocomo}}