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! 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 News | Press | Logo | Events | History | Screenshots & Videos | Contributors | Sponsors | Products | Clusters | Vendors Developers Development Guidelines | Developer Manual | Coreboot v3 | Doxygen | Browse Source | Debugging | JTAG | EHCI Debug Port | Testsystem | GSoC | Ideas | Laptop | Desktops Status Supported Motherboards | Supported Chipsets & Devices | Build Status | Flashrom support | Superiotool support Related Tools Flashrom | Superiotool | Nvramtool | Buildrom | Mkelfimage | Inteltool | Msrtool Getting Started Downloads | Documentation | Build Tutorials | Payloads | QEMU | AMD SimNow | Confirmed Working SVN Revisions | Misc 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)