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- Libreboot project
- Libreboot documentation is under docs/
- The website is https://libreboot.org/
- License can be found in COPYING and through parts of the source tree.
- Libreboot is a free BIOS or UEFI replacement (free as in freedom); libre boot
- firmware that initializes the hardware and starts a bootloader for your
- operating system. It's also an open source BIOS, but open source fails to
- promote freedom; please call libreboot free software.
- Why use libreboot?
- Many people use non-free boot firmware, even if they use GNU/Linux. Non-free
- BIOS/UEFI firmware often contains backdoors, can be slow and have severe bugs,
- where you are left helpless at the mercy of the developers; you have no freedom
- over your computing. By contrast, libreboot is building a world where
- everyone can use, study, adapt and share software, with true control and
- ownership over their technology. In other words, you should use Libreboot for
- your freedom's sake!
- Libreboot is faster, more secure and more reliable than most non-free firmware,
- and can provide many advanced features (such as encrypted /boot/, GPG signature
- checking before booting your kernel, ability to load an OS from the flash chip,
- and more).
- Libreboot's main upstream providers are coreboot (which we deblob, for hardware
- initialization), depthcharge (bootloader, and default libreboot payload on ARM),
- and GRUB (bootloader, and default libreboot payload on x86). We also
- integrate flashrom (for installing libreboot), and several of our own utilities,
- scripts and configuration files. All of this is integrated into a single,
- coherent package that is easy to use. We add our own patches to the various
- upstreams used, and where feasible try to merge upstream as much as possible.
- Libreboot provides a fully automated build system and installation process, with
- documentation written for non-technical users, in an attempt to make the
- software as easy to use as possible. ROM images are provided, along with
- utilities, all built from the publicly distributed source code.
- This README is licensed under Creative Commons Zero 1.0:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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