For those looking to replace their proprietary BIOS with the open-source Coreboot on a supported platform or are already doing so, Coreboot 25.03 is out today to provide the newest capabilities for this open-source BIOS/firmware solution.
Coreboot 25.03 delivers display handling improvements, a better USB debugging experience, CPU topology updates, various improvements to the open-source RAM initialization for aging Intel Haswell platforms, improved USB Type-C and Thunderbolt handling, various embedded controller (EC) improvements, better RISC-V architecture support, DDR5-7500 support, and many bug fixes across the sprawling Coreboot codebase.
There are 22 more motherboards/targets supported by Coreboot 25.03. As usual a number of the targets are for new Google Chromebook devices. There is also support for the AMD “Crater” development platform that was used for Renoir SoCs, a number of old ASRock motherboards for Haswell era processors, and some new StarLabs devices as well as from NovaCustom. Also of note is the “Intel Ptlrvp” addition that is the reference platform for next-gen Panther Lake.
The list of 22 new boards supported by Coreboot 25.03 include:
– AMD Crater for Renoir SoC
– ASROCK Z87 Extreme3
– ASROCK Z87 Extreme4
– ASROCK Z87M Extreme4
– ASROCK Z87 Pro4
– ASUS P8H67-I DELUXE
– Google Dirks
– Google Guren
– Google Meliks
– Google Moxie
– Google Ocelot
– Google Pujjoniru
– Google Quandiso2
– Google Wyrdeer
– HP Pro 3400 Series
– Intel Ptlrvp
– Lenovo ThinkCentre M900
– NovaCustom V540TU (14″)
– NovaCustom V560TU (16″)
– StarLabs StarLite Mk V Smart Battery (N200)
– StarLabs StarBook Mk VII (165H)
– StarLabs StarBook Mk VII (N200)
Via Coreboot.org are more details on the many changes to find with today’s Coreboot 25.03 release.
