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). 10 years! Anton Borisov interviewed the original developers (german version) as the Open Source PC firmware celebrates ten years of activity! coreboot v4.1 has not been released! We belatedly celebrated our recent 10 year anniversary with an April Fool's joke: The fake release of coreboot v4.1. 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 Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code Supports many mainboards, devices, and payloads More... Use Cases Desktop PCs, servers, clusters, thin clients Clusters, high-performance computing Embedded solutions, STBs/HTPC, appliances, terminals No-moving-parts solutions (ROM chip as "disk") Non-standard scenarios (e.g. FPGA in Opteron socket) More... Payloads FILO / GRUB2 / OpenFirmware / OpenBIOS Linux / Windows / FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD SeaBIOS / Memtest86 Etherboot / GPXE Bayou / Coreinfo / Tint / Libpayload 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 | 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 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

PLCC socket soldering fun News 2009/03/22: coreboot @ FSF LibrePlanet 2009/01/10: Windows 7 boots 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 2008/10/30: LiPPERT Cool SpaceRunner 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)