coreboot VS edk2

Compare coreboot vs edk2 and see what are their differences.

coreboot

Mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests. (by coreboot)
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coreboot edk2
92 3
2,045 5
1.8% -
10.0 0.0
6 days ago 2 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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coreboot

Posts with mentions or reviews of coreboot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.

edk2

Posts with mentions or reviews of edk2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing coreboot and edk2 you can also consider the following projects:

1vyrain - LiveUSB Bootable exploit chain to unlock all features of xx30 ThinkPad machines. WiFi Whitelist, Advanced Menu, Overclocking.

u-boot - "Das U-Boot" Source Tree

UEFITool - UEFI firmware image viewer and editor

OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide

thinkpad-firmware-patches - Collection of ThinkPad UEFI patches.

ExpansionCards - Reference designs and documentation to create Expansion Cards for the Framework Laptop

waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.

thinkpad-ec - Infrastructure for examining and patching Thinkpad embedded controller firmware

edk2 - EDK II

pulseeffects-presets - Collection of community-made presets for PulseEffects tailored for TUXEDO laptops.

tuxedo-keyboard - This repository will no longer get any updates as the code here is now part of tuxedo-drivers https://gitlab.com/tuxedocomputers/development/packages/tuxedo-drivers.

pineeye_for_pinephone - Thermal imaging board aimed to be used with the PinePhone.