Project Summary
coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload, for example a Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2, OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86.
In a Nutshell, coreboot...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 537 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2003
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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