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# Linux as Firmware

**Tired of reinventing the wheel by implementing drivers for firmware again and again?**</br>
**Not with LinuxBoot!**

### What?

LinuxBoot is the concept of using a Linux kernel and runtime as a bootloader.
LinuxBoot is the concept of using a Linux kernel and initramfs as a bootloader.

The [`linuxboot`](https://github.com/linuxboot/linuxboot) repository contains a
build system implementing LinuxBoot primarily targeting servers and PCs, which
started as [*NERF*](https://trmm.net/NERF) in January 2017 at Google.

![](images/linuxboot_info.png)

### Why?
## Why?

* Improves boot reliability by replacing lightly-tested firmware drivers with
hardened Linux drivers.
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supercomputing systems -- wherever reliability and performance are
paramount.

### LinuxBoot Book
## LinuxBoot Book

The official documentation for LinuxBoot is the [LinuxBoot Book](https://book.linuxboot.org),
where you can find information on how LinuxBoot works, how to build the various
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LinuxBoot is a Linux Foundation project and as such has a [technical charter](
../../docs/Technical_Charter_01_25_18.pdf).

### Fortnightly meeting

We had open meetings every two weeks welcoming everyone to discuss about the latest news, upcoming talks and events, and so on.

The [meeting notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ODqACyXvtRhTi8YHxg8Z386eQRuEEXu7YcQWQStCrvA/edit#heading=h.kogal719mll2) are kept in a Google doc.

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<!--
The LinuxBoot calendar is displayed below. Add it to Google calendar using the "+" button, or import [the ICS file](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/b7msajvido3i4vhbt6d98rhcso%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics) to your favorite calendar app.

<iframe src="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=b7msajvido3i4vhbt6d98rhcso%40group.calendar.google.com" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 600px; border: 0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
-->

### Contact

* [Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linuxboot)
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useChroma = true
subtitle = "Let Linux do it"
subtitle = "Linux as a bootloader"
logo = "images/logo.png"
favicon = "images/favicon.ico"
dateFormat = "January 2, 2006"
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