Tired of reinventing the wheel by implementing drivers for firmware again and again?
Not with LinuxBoot!
LinuxBoot is the concept of using a Linux kernel and runtime as a bootloader.
The linuxboot repository contains a
build system implementing LinuxBoot primarily targeting servers and PCs, which
started as NERF in January 2017 at Google.
- Improves boot reliability by replacing lightly-tested firmware drivers with hardened Linux drivers.
- Improves boot time by removing unnecessary code. Typically makes boot 20 times faster.
- Allows customization of the initrd runtime to support site-specific needs (both device drivers as well as custom executables).
- Proven approach for almost 20 years in military, consumer electronics, and supercomputing systems -- wherever reliability and performance are paramount.
The official documentation for LinuxBoot is the LinuxBoot Book, where you can find information on how LinuxBoot works, how to build the various flavours (e.g. coreboot/LinuxBoot or UEFI PEI/LinuxBoot), the u-root ramfs builder, etc.
LinuxBoot is a Linux Foundation project and as such has a technical charter.
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 are kept in a Google doc.
- Mailing list
- Slack (Join here)
The following are just a subset of the organizations and people ivolved.