LinuxBoot
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LinuxBoot is a free software project aimed at replacing the DXE phase of UEFI firmware. LinuxBoot must run on top of hardware initialisation software in order to start. This can be the PEI part of UEFI, coreboot, or U-Boot.[1] LinuxBoot became an official Linux Foundation project in 2018.[2]
History
Originally, the project was started as NERF by Google.[3] NERF was a stripped down version of EFI which contains a Linux kernel and userland applications. This project has been split up into LinuxBoot (which contains the bootblock and kernel) and u-root, which contains the userland application.
Hardware support
Currently, the support of LinuxBoot is limited to a few servers[4]
- Dell R630
- Open Compute Project Winferfell, Tioga Pass and Monolake
- Intel S2600WF
External links
References
- ^ "Bringing Linux back to server boot ROMs with NERF and Heads". media.ccc.de.
- ^ "System Startup Gets a Boost with New LinuxBoot Project". Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ "LinuxBoot: Linux as firmware". LWN.net.
- ^ "LinuxBoot GitHub". GitHub. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
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