"Powering On" Explained - The Linux Boot process (& Coreboot)
"Powering On" Explained - The Linux Boot process (& Coreboot)
Note that if you love this sort of thing, the kernel docs have excellent architecture-specific initialization details.
I expected more from the article. I accept it’s supposed to be a high level overview but even keeping that in mind they made some odd choices with how the article is organized. coreboot is first mentioned in the section about bootloaders after discussing systemd-boot and GRUB. That’s out of place given the article is trying to organize itself by having each section be in chronological order. I worry this can confuse people new to these concepts.
I’m a fan of what this company is doing and even own one of their laptops, but this article feels lazy. Given that they’re one of the few companies that provide an open source UEFI implementation out of the box I’d be interested in reading a well written article about the process and their experiences using it, but this article certainly isn’t it.
They are pretty established which is nice. I think they work together with Novacustom, 3mdeb, maybe Starlabs and Tuxedo on making some Clevo Laptops fully coreboot compatible, upstreaming the specific things.
That is so important, there was kind of an empty space between 2012-14 and today laptops.
My Thinkpad T430 is coreboot compatible, the T440p maybe, but that was it until these Clevo models came.
I still have to coreboot my old Thinkpad and it is for sure pretty cool and modular hardware, but still very old.
Draw the rest of the owl kind of explanation.
It just loads the fucking os, dummy. Don’t you get it?