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 211 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 | SerialICE 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 | Hardware tools Getting Started Download coreboot and get started. Build HOWTO | Downloads | Documentation | Board Tutorials | QEMU | AMD SimNow Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support. FAQ | Mailinglist | IRC | Issue Tracker | Glossary | coreboot v2 Options

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