Ideas
The wiki is being retired!
Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!
This is a random list of ideas for features which would be nice to have in coreboot (or a payload).
Having an item here does not mean that someone is necessarily already working on it.
Ideas / Wishlist
Hardware Features
- BIOS setup
- Support for the NX-bit.
- Config option for enabling/disabling HPET (high precision event timers) on all boards which have them.
- Config option for enabling/disabling hardware virtualization.
- Config option for enabling/disabling the TPM chip on boards which have one.
- Config option for enabling/disabling the processor serial number to be read by the OS.
Payloads
- Flashrom-like payload to allow reflashing the BIOS without having to load an OS, boot from floppies or similar.
- Barebox-style mini-payload for recovery purposes (possible already to a certain degree, but should be simplified).
- GNU fdisk-like payload to allow basic partitioning, file system check and swap enable/disable.
- Security payload, which allows encryption of the filesystem on any harddisk and USB thumb drive. User authentication before boot with USB dongle, fingerprint sensor or chipcard-terminal with PKCS 15.
Related tools
- Add support in VirtualBox for loading arbitrary BIOS images so VirtualBox can be used for testing coreboot (as an alternative to QEMU).