coreboot A Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware).
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A Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware). 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. The project performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload.Use Cases: * Desktop PCs, servers, clusters, thin clients * Clusters, high-performance computing * Embedded solutions, STBs/HTPC, appliances, terminals * No-moving-parts solutions (ROM chip as "disk") * Non-standard scenarios (e.g. FPGA in Opteron socket) Here are some key features of "coreboot": · 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees! · Fast boot times (3 seconds to Linux console) · Avoids the need for a slow/buggy/proprietary BIOS · Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code · Supports many mainboards, devices, and payloads What's New in This Release: · This release fixes Bayou payload execution. · It fixes MTRR setup for UMA architectures. · It increases ROM_IMAGE_SIZE for the Agami Aruma to resolve overlapping sections. · It adds dynamically generated P-States infrastructure on applicable architectures. · It adds QWord support to acpigen. · It adds TOM2 to the K8 DSDT. · It has assorted bugfixes, code cleanups, and documentation fixes.

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