The coreboot project began in the winter of 1999 in the Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with the goal of creating a BIOS that would start fast and handle errors … See more

CPU architectures supported by coreboot include IA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64, MIPS and RISC-V. Supported system-on-a-chip (SOC) platforms include AMD Geode, starting with the Geode GX processor developed for the OLPC. Artec Group added Geode LX … See more

Since coreboot must initialize the bare hardware, it must be ported to every chipset and motherboard that it supports. Before initializing RAM, coreboot initializes the See more

Coreboot is open source, and third-parties such as Chrome OS Devices, PC Engines, Star Labs, System76 and Purism ship their hardware with coreboot. See more

Coreboot typically loads a Linux kernel, but it can load any other stand-alone ELF executable, such as iPXE, gPXE or Etherboot that can boot a Linux kernel over a network, or See more

Coreboot can load a payload, which may be written using the libpayload helper library. Existing payloads include the following:
• SeaBIOS, a tiny implementation of x86 BIOS, written mostly in 16-bit C using the GNU C compiler See more

Coreboot has a number of variants from its original code base each with slightly different objectives:
• librecore - A variant with more focus on freedom, non-x86 instruction set computers, and firmware development frameworks. See more