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| Coreboot README |
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| Coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary |
| BIOS you can find in most of today's computers. |
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| It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes |
| one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel. |
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| Payloads |
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| After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any |
| desired "payload" can be started by coreboot. Examples include: |
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| * A Linux kernel |
| * FILO (a simple bootloader with filesystem support) |
| * GRUB2 (a free bootloader; support is in development) |
| * OpenBIOS (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation) |
| * Open Firmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation) |
| * SmartFirmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation) |
| * GNUFI (a free, UEFI-compatible firmware) |
| * Etherboot (for network booting and booting from raw IDE or FILO) |
| * ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 or OpenBSD) |
| * Plan 9 (a distributed operating system) |
| * memtest86 (for testing your RAM) |
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| Supported Hardware |
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| Coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards. |
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| For details please consult: |
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| * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards |
| * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices |
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| Website and Mailing List |
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| Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development |
| guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website: |
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| http://www.coreboot.org |
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| You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list: |
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| http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist |
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| Copyright and License |
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| The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual |
| developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details. |
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| Coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). |
| Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", |
| and some files (mostly those derived from the Linux kernel) are licensed under |
| the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects, |
| other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual |
| source files for details. |
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| This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2. |
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