The wiki is being retired!

Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!

This is work in progress.

Development Environment

Required toolchains etc.

Coding Guidelines

General Guidelines

Comments

Coding Style

Indentation etc.

Documentation

General guidelines and tips
Doxygen

Testing

abuild

Svn Commits

Send patches to the Mailinglist for review before committing.
Patch from: XYZ
Signed off by: XYZ

Bug-Tracker

License Issues

Contributed code must be GPL'd (preferrably GPLv2 or any later version), or at least have a GPL-compatible license.

Common License Header

Example:

/*
 * This file is part of LinuxBIOS, a Free Software BIOS implementation.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2005 John Doe <john@example.com>
 * Copyright (C) 2006 Jane Doe <jane@example.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
 */

Development Guidelines