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<h1 class="title">Libreboot project</h1>
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<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="/faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
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<li><strong><a href="/freedom-status.html">Freedom status</a></strong></li>
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<li><strong><a href="/download.html">Download</a></strong></li>
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<li><a href="/docs/install/">Install</a></li>
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<li><a href="/docs/">Docs</a></li>
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<li><a href="/news/">News</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues">Bugs</a></li>
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<li><a href="/git.html">Send patch</a></li>
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<li><strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/libreleah">Donate</a></strong></li>
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<li><a href="/contact.html">Contact</a></li>
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<li><strong><a href="https://minifree.org/">Buy preinstalled</a></strong></li>
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<h1>Navigate this page:</h1>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#why-should-you-use-libreboot">Why should you use
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<em>Libreboot</em>?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#libreboot-is-not-a-fork-of-coreboot">Libreboot is not a
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fork of coreboot</a></li>
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<li><a href="#how-to-help">How to help</a></li>
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<li><a href="#translations-needed-for-libreboot.org">Translations
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needed, for libreboot.org</a></li>
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<p><a href="./">English</a> | <a href="index.de.html">Deutsch</a> | <a
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href="index.fr.html">Français</a> | <a href="index.it.html">Italiano</a>
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| <a href="index.uk.html">українська</a> | <a
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href="index.zh-cn.html">简体中文</a></p>
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<p>The <em>Libreboot</em> project provides <a
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href="freedom-status.html">free, open source</a> (<em>libre</em>) boot
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firmware based on coreboot, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on
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<a href="docs/hardware/">specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM based
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motherboards</a>, including laptop and desktop computers. It initialises
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the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU, peripherals) and starts a
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bootloader for your operating system. <a href="docs/linux/">Linux</a>
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and <a href="docs/bsd/">BSD</a> are well-supported. Help is available
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via <a href="https://web.libera.chat/#libreboot">#libreboot</a> on <a
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href="https://libera.chat/">Libera</a> IRC.</p>
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<p><img loading="lazy" tabindex=1 class="r" src="https://av.libreboot.org/hp9470m/9470m+2560p.jpg" /><span
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class="f"><img loading="lazy" src="https://av.libreboot.org/hp9470m/9470m+2560p.jpg" /></span></p>
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<p><strong>NEW RELEASE: The latest release is Libreboot 20231021,
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released on 21 October 2023. See: <a
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href="news/libreboot20231021.html">Libreboot 20231021 release
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announcement</a>.</strong></p>
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<h2 id="why-should-you-use-libreboot">Why should you use
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<em>Libreboot</em>?</h2>
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<p>Libreboot gives you <a
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href="https://writefreesoftware.org/">freedoms</a> that you otherwise
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can’t get with most other boot firmware, plus faster boot speeds and <a
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href="docs/linux/grub_hardening.html">better security</a>. It’s
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extremely powerful and <a href="docs/maintain/">configurable</a> for
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many use cases.</p>
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<p><em>We</em> believe the freedom to <a
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href="https://writefreesoftware.org/">study, share, modify and use
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software</a>, without any restriction, is one of the fundamental human
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rights that everyone must have. In this context, <em>software
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freedom</em> matters. Your freedom matters. Education matters. <a
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href="https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Npd_xDuNi9k">Right to repair</a> matters.
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Many people use proprietary (non-libre) boot firmware, even if they use
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<a href="https://www.openbsd.org/">a libre OS</a>. Proprietary firmware
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often <a href="faq.html#intel">contains</a> <a
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href="faq.html#amd">backdoors</a>, and can be buggy. The Libreboot
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project was founded in December 2013, with the express purpose of making
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coreboot firmware accessible for non-technical users.</p>
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<p>The Libreboot project uses <a
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href="https://www.coreboot.org/">coreboot</a> for <a
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href="https://doc.coreboot.org/getting_started/architecture.html">hardware
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initialisation</a>. Coreboot is notoriously difficult to install for
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most non-technical users; it handles only basic initialization and jumps
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to a separate <a
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href="https://doc.coreboot.org/payloads.html">payload</a> program (e.g.
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<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">GRUB</a>, <a
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href="https://www.tianocore.org/">Tianocore</a>), which must also be
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configured. <em>Libreboot solves this problem</em>; it is a <em>coreboot
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distribution</em> with an <a href="docs/build/">automated build
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system</a> that builds complete <em>ROM images</em>, for more robust
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installation. Documentation is provided.</p>
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<h2 id="libreboot-is-not-a-fork-of-coreboot">Libreboot is not a fork of
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coreboot</h2>
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<p><img loading="lazy" tabindex=1 class="l" style="max-width:25%;" src="https://av.libreboot.org/thinkpadcollection/thinkpadcollection1-min.jpg" /><span
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class="f"><img loading="lazy" src="https://av.libreboot.org/thinkpadcollection/thinkpadcollection1-min.jpg" /></span></p>
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<p>In fact, Libreboot tries to stay as close to <em>stock</em> coreboot
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as possible, for each board, but with many different types of
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configuration provided automatically by the Libreboot build system.</p>
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<p>In the same way that <em>Alpine Linux</em> is a <em>Linux
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distribution</em>, Libreboot is a <em>coreboot distribution</em>. If you
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want to build a ROM image from scratch, you otherwise have to perform
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expert-level configuration of coreboot, GRUB and whatever other software
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you need, to prepare the ROM image. With <em>Libreboot</em>, you can
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literally download from Git or a source archive, and run
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<code>make</code>, and it will build entire ROM images. An automated
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build system, named <code>lbmk</code> (Libreboot MaKe), builds these ROM
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images automatically, without any user input or intervention required.
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Configuration has already been performed in advance.</p>
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<p>If you were to build regular coreboot, without using Libreboot’s
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automated build system, it would require a lot more intervention and
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decent technical knowledge to produce a working configuration.</p>
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<p>Regular binary releases of Libreboot provide these ROM images
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pre-compiled, and you can simply install them, with no special knowledge
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or skill except the ability to follow <a href="docs/install/">simplified
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instructions, written for non-technical users</a>.</p>
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<div class="h"><h2 id="how-to-help">How to help</h2><a aria-hidden="true" href="#how-to-help">[link]</a></div>
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<p><img loading="lazy" tabindex=1 class="l" style="max-width:15%;" src="https://av.libreboot.org/hp8200sff/grub_open.jpg" /><span
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class="f"><img loading="lazy" src="https://av.libreboot.org/hp8200sff/grub_open.jpg" /></span></p>
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<p>The <em>single</em> biggest way you can help is to <em>add</em> new
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mainboards in Libreboot, by submitting a config. Anything coreboot
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supports can be integrated in Libreboot, with ROM images provided in
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releases. See:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="docs/maintain/testing.html">Apply to become a board
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maintainer/tester</a></li>
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<li><a href="docs/maintain/porting.html">Porting guide for new
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mainboards</a></li>
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<li><a href="docs/maintain/">Libreboot build system
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documentation</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>After that, there is build system maintenance (see above), and
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<em>documentation</em> which we take seriously. Documentation is
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critical, in any project.</p>
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<p><em>User support</em> is also critical. Stick around on IRC, and if
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you’re competent to help someone with their issue (or wily enough to
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learn with them), that is a great service to the project. A lot of
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people also ask for user support on the <code>r/libreboot</code>
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subreddit.</p>
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<p>You can check bugs listed on the <a
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href="https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues">bug tracker</a>.</p>
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<p>If you spot a bug and have a fix, <a href="git.html">here are
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instructions for how to send patches</a>, and you can also report it.
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Also, this entire website is written in Markdown and hosted in a <a
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href="https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbwww">separate repository</a>
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where you can send patches.</p>
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<p>Any and all development discussion and user support are all done on
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the IRC channel. More information is on the <a
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href="contact.html">contact page</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="translations-needed-for-libreboot.org">Translations needed, for
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libreboot.org</h2>
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<p>Libreboot currently has translated Web pages in Ukrainian and French
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(but not for all pages, yet, on either language).</p>
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<p>If you want to help with translations, you can translate pages,
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update existing translations and submit your translated versions. For
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instructions, please read:</p>
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<p><a href="news/translations.html">How to submit translations for
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libreboot.org</a></p>
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<p>Even if someone is already working on translations in a given
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language, we can always use multiple people. The more the merrier!</p>
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<li><a href="/git.html">Edit this page</a></li>
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<li><a href="/who.html">Who develops Libreboot?</a></li>
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<li><a href="/license.html">License</a></li>
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