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Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> Change-Id: I4f181979ca5e47b27731c681a320b34cbecc0027 Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/19 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Marc Jones <marcj303@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu <cristi.magherusan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
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coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
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BIOS you can find in most of today's computers.
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coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS
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(firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of
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hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a
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payload.
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It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes
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one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel or a bootloader.
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With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic,
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coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly
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firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom
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bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or
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UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary
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in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space
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required.
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coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS.
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Payloads
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