Coreboot requires a lot of work to get ported to a new motherboard. I'm trying to wrap my head around how to build and run it just for QEMU and am not getting very far. Keep in mind that Coreboot just sets up the hardware. You also need a payload to accomplish what the BIOS and/or EFI used to do. There is SeaBIOS that replaces the bios, OpenBIOS that provides a Sun-like OpenFirmware, and FILO which is sort of like LILO or Grub in firmware. An overarching deficiency though, is there is no built-in equivalent of the setup menu. I haven't yet figured out what the equivalent is.
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Coreboot requires a lot of work to get ported to a new motherboard. I'm trying to wrap my head around how to build and run it just for QEMU and am not getting very far. Keep in mind that Coreboot just sets up the hardware. You also need a payload to accomplish what the BIOS and/or EFI used to do. There is SeaBIOS that replaces the bios, OpenBIOS that provides a Sun-like OpenFirmware, and FILO which is sort of like LILO or Grub in firmware. An overarching deficiency though, is there is no built-in equivalent of the setup menu. I haven't yet figured out what the equivalent is.