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 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. 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

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 None, currently.