Group: Hardware/Software/Boot software

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Revision as of 16:37, 17 May 2024

Boot software

Project Freedom Usage Can be loaded by Can load
Barebox ?
  • Bootloader for some comuters.
  • Complete BIOS replacement for some other computers.
  • Hardware
  • nonfree first stage bootloaders
  • QEMU
  • GNU Linux operating system
Coreboot The nonfree software present in its source code seem now gone. But it reuses external nonfree software to support many computers. In some case it doesn't do much anymore and the nonfree software does almost all the work.
  • Partial BIOS replacement: initialize the hardware only, doesn't load an operating system.
  • Hardware
  • QEMU
  • Linux kernel + initrd
  • GRUB
  • SeaBIOS
  • Tianocore
GNU GRUB Fully free (GNU Project)
  • Complete BIOS replacement for Some Lemote computer.
  • Bootloader for all other cases.
  • BIOS (SeaBIOS, nonfree BIOS, etc)
  • Coreboot
  • Hardware in the case of some Lemote computers.
  • QEMU
  • UEFI (Tianocore, nonfree UEFI, etc)
  • GNU Linux operating system with grub.cfg
  • Ipxe
  • Memtest86+
IPXE Probably fully free. Shipped as-is by FSDG distributions.
  • Network Bootloader.
  • BIOS through PXE or iso or floppy.
  • GRUB
  • QEMU
  • UEFI through PXE or iso or floppy.
  • GNU Linux operating system
  • Ipxe
  • Memtest86+
SeaBIOS Probably fully free. Shipped as-is by FSDG distributions.
  • Implements the BIOS interface.
  • Coreboot
  • QEMU
  • UEFI (Tianocore, nonfree UEFI, etc).
  • GRUB
U-Boot Contains nonfree software
  • Bootloader for some comuters.
  • Complete BIOS replacement for some other computers.
  • BIOS (SeaBIOS, nonfree BIOS, etc)
  • Hardware
  • nonfree first stage bootloaders
  • QEMU
  • GNU Linux operating system with syslinux.cfg