Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a project that aims to replace the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a payload. Payloads can include a compressed Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2, OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for the Fujitsu MBM29F004BC, MBM29F004TC, MBM29F400BC, Macronix MX25L512, MX25L1005, MX25L2005, MX25L6405, and MX29F002B flash ROMs and the Winbond W83627DHG Super I/O. It fixes the code for the Fujitsu MBM29F400TC and Macronix MX29F002T. It adds the missing I/O resources for IT8712F GPIOs. It adds true multiboot support. It has code cleanup and bugfixes.
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