Coreboot 25.03, a project aimed at developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS, has been released. The project code is distributed under the GPLV2 license and the new version includes 1001 changes with 131 developers taking part in the release preparation.
The main changes in Coreboot 25.03 include:
- Support for motherboards such as Asrock Z87 Extreme3, Z87 Extreme4, Z87M Extreme4, Z87 Pro4, Asus P8H67-I Deluxe, HP Pro 3400, Intel PTLRVP, Lenovo Thinkcentre M900, Novacular V540TU (14″), V560TU (16″), Starlabs Starlite Mk V Smart Battle (N200), Starbook MK VII (165H), and Starlabs Starbook Mk VII (N200).
- Added support for 8 boards used in various devices with Chrome OS or on Google servers.
- Added support for SOC Renoir (AMD Crater) and Xilinx Zynq7000.
- Added support for the rotation of the logo display during portrait orientation of the screen panel, with the ability to return orientation to the initial value when the laptop is closed to ensure correct logo display when an external screen is connected.
- Improved support for displays, video cards, USB Type-C, Thunderbolt, and DDR5 chips providing data transfer speeds of 7500 MT/s.
- Various improvements to energy consumption, temperature, memory initialization, ACPI support, error processing, recovery after failures, Trusted Platform Module, built-in controllers, RISC-V architecture, and support for sensory panels and input devices.
- Enhancements to the “LSUSB -t” utility format, FSP code for battery charge notifications during loading, emergency completion of FSP-S on systems with Intel Meteor Lake processors, ACPI typical code for SRAM and HECI on the Intel Cannon Lake platform, memory initialization system for the Intel Haswell platform, intelp2m utility, and debugging capabilities with expanded logging.
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