History
The coreboot project was started in the winter of 1999 in the Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The goal was a BIOS that would start fast and handle errors intelligently. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Main contributors have been LANL, AMD, coresystems GmbH and Linux Networx, Inc, as well as motherboard vendors MSI, Gigabyte and Tyan, by offering coreboot next to their standard BIOS or providing specifications of the hardware interfaces for some of their recent motherboards. However, Tyan seems to have ceased support of coreboot. Google partly sponsors the coreboot project. CME Group, a cluster of futures exchanges, began supporting the coreboot project in 2009.
Code from Das U-Boot was assimilated to enable support for the ARM architecture.
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