coreboot
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Key facts
- Software.name
- coreboot
- Software.logo
- Coreboot full.svgclass=skin-invert
- Software.logo alt
- Graphic of a running hare in black and white above text "coreboot" in lowercase sans-serif font
- Software.logo size
- 150px
- Software.author
- Ronald G. Minnich, Eric Biederman, Li-Ta (Ollie) Lo, Stefan Reinauer, and the coreboot community
- Software.programming language
- Mostly C, about 1% in assembly and optionally SPARK
- Software.platform
- IA-32, x86-64, ARMv7, ARMv8, RISC-V, POWER8
- Software.genre
- Firmware
- Software.license
- GPLv2-only
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Supported platforms
- Design
- Initializing DRAM
- Developing and debugging coreboot
- Payloads
- {{Anchor|European Coreboot Conference|ECC}} European Coreboot Conference
- Conference history
- {{Anchor|LIBREBOOT}}Variants
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
coreboot (formerly LinuxBIOS) is an open‑source project that provides lightweight firmware to initialize hardware and then load an operating system. It is designed to replace proprietary firmware (traditional BIOS or UEFI implementations) by performing the minimal tasks required to start a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.
Because coreboot performs low‑level hardware initialization, it must be ported to each supported chipset and motherboard model; consequently, availability is limited to platforms for which support has been implemented.