Group: Hardware/Software/Boot software
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(Start documenting some popular boot sotware.) |
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* QEMU | * QEMU | ||
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+ | * Linux kernel + initrd | ||
+ | * GRUB | ||
+ | * SeaBIOS | ||
+ | * Tianocore | ||
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! GNU GRUB | ! GNU GRUB |
Revision as of 16:33, 17 May 2024
Boot software
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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. |
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GNU GRUB | Fully free (GNU Project) |
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SeaBIOS | Probably fully free. Shipped as-is by FSDG distributions. |
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U-Boot | Contains nonfree software |
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