Coreboot
Peter Stuge
Konsult Stuge
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The BIOS and its successor EFI are considered by many to be the final frontier for open source software in commodity PCs. This talk describes the BIOS replacement coreboot and the projects surrounding it. The closed nature of traditional firmware is starting to cause concern even on the government level, as awareness for BIOS malware risks is increasing. The presentation describes coreboot, supplementary tools such as buildrom, flashrom, superiotool and nvramtool, and some popular payloads that combine with coreboot to make up the firmware: FILO, EtherBoot, SeaBIOS, Memtest86, tint, Linux, coreinfo, bayou and libpayload featuring tinycurses, which can turn simple applications into instant-on appliances. Finally there will be a demonstration of coreboot running on hardware.


Peter is a self-employed consultant with many years of experience in software, hardware, security, networking, databases and more. An early hacker, he was taking electrical apparatus apart at the age of 4 and he actually put one or two back together too! He started programming at 9 and got his first soldering iron for his 10th birthday after collecting LEDs for a year. Some of the open source projects Peter is following and contributing to are coreboot, flashrom, OpenSSH portable, libusb and libssh2. His interests include integration, security, usability, efficiency, automation, networking, cars, RC models, electronics, electronic music, tasty food and watching great movies.




Last modified: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:20:22 +0200