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Coreboot
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| Original author(s) | Ronald G. Minnich, Eric Biederman, Li-Ta (Ollie) Lo, Stefan Reinauer, and the coreboot community |
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| Initial release | 1999 |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Mostly C, about 1% in assembly and optionally SPARK |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, ARMv7,[3] ARMv8, MIPS, RISC-V, POWER8 |
| Type | Firmware |
| License | GPLv2-only[4] |
| Website | www |
coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS,[5] is a software project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware (BIOS or UEFI) found in most computers with a lightweight firmware designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.
Since coreboot initializes the bare hardware, it must be ported to every chipset and motherboard that it supports. As a result, coreboot is available only for a limited number of hardware platforms and motherboard models.
One of the coreboot variants is Libreboot, a software distribution partly free of proprietary blobs, aimed at end users.
- ^ Martin Roth (2 September 2024). "coreboot 24.08 release". Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ "Releases". coreboot. n.d.
- ^ "ARM". coreboot. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "coreboot's licence". github.com. 1991. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ "[LinuxBIOS] Welcome to coreboot". 12 January 2008.
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