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 GRUB2 / FILO Linux / Windows / FreeBSD / OpenBSD Open Firmware et. al. Etherboot Memtest86 About Find out more about coreboot. News | Press | Events | History | Screenshots & Videos | Contributors | Sponsors | Products | Clusters 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 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

An empty PLCC socket. News 2008/04/19: coreboot is a Hackontest candidate 2008/04/19: PC Engines ALIX.2C3 support 2008/04/04: Silicon Mechanics ships coreboot servers 2008/04/03: coreboot Summit Denver 2008/03/29: TeleVideo TC7020 support 2008/03/17: MSI MS-6119 support 2008/03/17: Intel 3100 / Mt.Arvon support 2008/03/09: RCA RM4100 support Contact Mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org IRC: #coreboot (on irc.freenode.net)