Foreword
By Ron MinnichCreator of LinuxBIOS (later renamed coreboot)Software Engineer at Google, Inc.
I started the coreboot project at Los Alamos National Lab in 1999. At the time, it was seen by hardware vendors as an impractical idea that would soon vanish. Now, 15 years later, it is mainstream: millions of x86- and ARM-based Chromebooks and Chromeboxes run coreboot, as its speed and reliability are an essential part of the Chrome OS user experience. coreboot is now a key component of the fastest-growing consumer laptop segment.
It might come as a surprise to embedded programmers that the initial goal of coreboot was to make very large supercomputing ...
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