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## LinuxBoot

The main LinuxBoot repository can be found at
[github.com/linuxboot/linuxboot](https://github.com/linuxboot/linuxboot).

The website is at [www.linuxboot.org](https://www.linuxboot.org).

Two potential runtimes for LinuxBoot are HEADS and NERF:

* [HEADS](https://github.com/osresearch/heads)
* [NERF (LinuxBoot + u-root)](https://github.com/u-root/u-root)

### Supported OCP Hardware

| | Winterfell | Leopard | Tioga Pass | Monolake | Wedge | Meaning |
| ---------- | -------------- | -------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ------- |
| Sockets | x2 | x2 | x2 | 4x1 | x1 | How many CPU sockets? |
| CPU | E5-2600v1 & v2 | E5-2600v3 & v4 | Xeon Gold | Broadwell | Broadwell | Chipset |
| Flash size | 16 MB | 16 MB | 32 MB | 16 MB | 16 MB | Total SPI flash size |
| DXE Size | 4.2 MB | 4.8 MB | 11 MB | ? | ? | Space available for DXE, LinuxBoot and initrd |
| DxeCore | No | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Not tested | Can we replace the DxeCore with our own? |
| coreboot | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Can we replace the PEI with coreboot+FSP? |
| BootGuard | N/A | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can we bypass the CPU's BootGuard security? |
| OpenBMC | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Does the system support OpenBMC? |
| VGA | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No? | Does the BMC expose a VGA framebuffer? |
| TPM | N/A | Not yet | Not yet | Not tested | Not tested | Does the x86 have a TPM that works with LinuxBoot? |
| LOM | e1000e | None | None | Maybe | Yes? | Is there a LAN-on-motherboard port? |
| PCIe | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Do we support the PCIe slots? |