Coreboot

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

Benefits

• 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees!
• Fast boot times (3 seconds from power-on to Linux console)
• Avoids the need for a slow, buggy, proprietary BIOS
• Runs in 32-Bit protected mode almost from the start
• Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code
• Supports a wide variety of hardware and payloads
• Further features: netboot, serial console, remote flashing, ...

Use Cases

• LinuxBIOS Cluster

The first LinuxBIOS cluster,see SC 2000.

Ed, a 128 node Alpha cluster running LinuxBIOS.