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Mark Marshall 2fa7c2e210 When loading an option ROM use the class stored in the device to
decide whether the option ROM is a special VGA type.

An S3 card that I've got has the wrong class in the VGA BIOS.
(A Stealth 64 DRAM T PCI, from 1994 - BIOS V2.02)

Signed-off-by: Mark Marshall <mark.marshall@csr.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>



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documentation Remove MAINBOARD_OPTIONS, which is a relic from early 2009-09-29 17:28:13 +00:00
payloads drop svn:externals in the tree and add it locally. 2009-10-30 18:16:09 +00:00
src When loading an option ROM use the class stored in the device to 2009-11-05 08:10:12 +00:00
targets Comment out option ROM line in Config-abuild.lb to fix build. 2009-10-28 19:56:34 +00:00
util x86emu: Add support for the following opcodes: 2009-11-03 14:59:43 +00:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
Makefile Only remove .xcompile with distclean. Look for crossgcc in util. 2009-10-31 20:47:14 +00:00
NEWS Rename almost all occurences of LinuxBIOS to coreboot. 2008-01-18 15:08:58 +00:00
README Improvements for the coreboot v2 README: 2009-04-17 17:11:39 +00:00

README

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coreboot README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
BIOS you can find in most of today's computers.

It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes
one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel or a bootloader.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.

See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.


Supported Hardware
------------------

coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Build Requirements
------------------

 * gcc / g++
 * make
 * python
 * perl

Optional:

 * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
 * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
 * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)


Building coreboot
-----------------

Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Documentation for details.


Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware
-------------------------------------------------

If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide
to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run
coreboot virtually in QEMU.

Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website:

  http://www.coreboot.org

You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list:

  http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

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.

This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.