LI_S02E59_Coreboot

About this episode

This episode discusses Coreboot and the software involved in booting computers.

This episode is all about getting computers up and running. The software that kicks in after you flick the power switch until the operating system kernel starts up to be more precise. And to be more precise, today's episode is about Coreboot, a FLOSS project aimed at replacing BIOS (rarely these days), UEFI (more often these days) and friends. Plus quite a few primers on CPUs, RAM chips and other esoteric aspects that you always wanted to know about but were too afraid to ask :-). Links IPL/booting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#History BIOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS Floppy disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk UEFI: https://uefi.org Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org Canonical's UEFI shim: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot Device Tree spec: https://www.devicetree.org Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot Linus about C++ and the Linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20 HP Moonshot: https://www.hewlettpackardhistory.com/item/the-miracle-of-moonshot Das U-Boot: https://u-boot.org Gummiboot (now systemd-boot): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-boot.html Libreboot: https://libreboot.org Grumpy Old Coders…

People in this episode

Host: Linux Inlaws

Topics covered

• Coreboot
• BIOS
• UEFI
• booting
• FLOSS
• CPUs
• RAM

Keywords

• Coreboot
• BIOS
• UEFI
• booting
• FLOSS
• CPUs
• RAM
• Linux

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Coreboot, BIOS, UEFI, Canonical, HP Moonshot, Das U-Boot, Gummiboot, Libreboot, Grumpy Old Coders, Software Freedom Podcast

Places: Linux

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