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. 200 different mainboards (v3: 16, v2: 120, v1: 64, some duplicates included). 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 Supports many mainboards and chipsets More... Use Cases More... Payloads About Find out more about coreboot. Developers Get involved! Help us make coreboot better. Status Find out whether your hardware is already supported. Related Tools Tools and libraries related to coreboot. Getting Started Download coreboot and get started. Support Learn how to contact us and find help and support.

PLCC socket soldering fun News 2009/01/06: coreboot is 10! 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 2008/12/05: NEC PowerMate 2000 support 2008/11/19: LiPPERT Cool RoadRunner LX 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)