Editing Coreboot (section)

== History ==
The coreboot project began with the goal of creating a BIOS that would start fast and handle errors intelligently.<ref>{{cite web |author=Anton Borisov |url=http://www.h-online.com/open/features/The-Open-Source-BIOS-is-Ten-An-interview-with-the-coreboot-developers-746525.html?view=print |title=The Open Source BIOS is Ten. An interview with the coreboot developers |website=[[The H]] |date=2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916212555/http://www.h-online.com/open/features/The-Open-Source-BIOS-is-Ten-An-interview-with-the-coreboot-developers-746525.html?view=print |archive-date=16 September 2012 |url-status=dead}}'</ref> It is licensed under the terms of the [[GNU General Public License]] version 2 (GPLv2). Main contributors include [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|LANL]], [[Silicon Integrated Systems|SiS]], [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]], Coresystems and Linux Networx, Inc, as well as motherboard vendors [[Micro-Star International|MSI]], [[Gigabyte Technology|Gigabyte]] and [[Tyan]], which offer coreboot alongside their standard BIOS or provide specifications of the hardware interfaces for some of their motherboards. [[Google]] partly sponsors the coreboot project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-sponsors-linuxbios-project.html|title=Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project|access-date=29 September 2023|archive-date=6 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206205540/http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-sponsors-linuxbios-project.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> [[CME Group]], a financial public company, began supporting the coreboot project in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/it-infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217400294|title=CME Group Dives Into Coreboot and Other Linux Open Source Projects|work=Wall Street & Technology|access-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812092429/http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/it-infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217400294|archive-date=12 August 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Other than the first three models, all [[Chromebook]]s run coreboot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coreboot.org/Chromebooks |title=Chromebooks |publisher=coreboot |date=16 January 2014 |access-date=17 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508225442/https://www.coreboot.org/Chromebooks |archive-date=8 May 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Code from [[Das U-Boot]] has been assimilated to enable support for processors based on the [[ARM architecture|ARM instruction set]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2011/06/05/gsoc2011week-1-analysis-of-u-boot-arm-boot-code/ |title=GSoC2011(Week 1): Analysis of U-boot ARM boot code &#124; coreboot developer blogs|date=5 June 2011 |access-date=12 April 2014}}</ref>

In June 2019, coreboot began to use the [[NSA]] software [[Ghidra]] for its [[reverse engineering]] efforts on [[Firmware|firmware-specific]] problems following the release of the suite as [[free and open source software]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coreboot nutzt NSA-Tool zum Reverse Engineering |url=https://www.golem.de/news/ghidra-coreboot-nutzt-nsa-tool-zum-reverse-engineering-1906-141746.html |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=[[Golem.de]]}}</ref>