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		mjg59 on Oct 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based compute... Eh kind of? Coreboot effectively provides the hardware initialisation layer - if you want runtime firmware you're going to need a payload like SeaBIOS (which is GPLed, but which isn't really intended to bring up real hardware from scratch)

yjftsjthsd-h on Oct 16, 2023 [–]

I won't say what it was intended for per se, but IIRC coreboot+seabios boots a lot of chromebooks just fine.

mjg59 on Oct 16, 2023 | [–]

Yes, Coreboot does the hardware bringup and then hands off to SeaBIOS. SeaBIOS can't do that on its own.

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