Overview#

Coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, is an Open Source (GPL) software project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware (BIOS or UEFI) found in most computers with a lightweight firmware designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit Operating Systems

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Booting
• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface