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. 202 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. 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 | Debugging | 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 | Mkelfimage | Inteltool | Msrtool 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

Tiano Core (UEFI) on coreboot News 2009/04/18: ASUS P2B-D support 2009/04/18: VIA CX700 / VT8454c support 2009/03/22: coreboot @ FSF LibrePlanet 2009/01/10: Windows 7 boots 2009/01/06: coreboot is 10! 2008/12/15: ASUS P2B-DS support 2008/12/09: AMD Pistachio support Upcoming Events 2009/04/16-17: Peter presents coreboot at GoOpen 2009 in Oslo. Contact Mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org IRC: #coreboot (on irc.freenode.net)