coreboot



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Introduction

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.

Documents

• A Hands-Off Introduction To LinuxBIOS (2006)
• V3 Port Guide (coreboot v3) (2008)
• LinuxBIOS freedom for your motherboard
• LinuxBIOS
• LOBOS:(Linux OS Boots OS) Booting a kernel in 32-bit mode(2000)
• FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS
• A Framework for Using Processor Cache as RAM (CAR) (2005)

Links

• http://www.coreboot.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot
• http://download.huihoo.com/coreboot/