Absolutely true.
However, the EU CRA definition of "boot managers" as "important products
with digital elements, Class I" says
"Software products with digital elements that manage the process of
initial system startup after power on/restart by initialising hardware,
loading or transferring control to the operating system environment or
system resources, and selecting boot options. This category includes but
is not limited to UEFI firmware, single-stage and multi-stage boot loaders."
Using that definition, coreboot is classified as "boot manager". This is
a good thing because the CRA has envisioned mechanisms to provide
support/funding to check and/or improve the security of products in this
category.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
Am 31.12.25 um 03:10 schrieb ron minnich:
“Coreboot is not a boot loader “ — yeah! Thanks!
On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 07:20 Nico Huber via coreboot
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi coreboot folks,
for those who missed the meeting: it took an early turn when we were
told that verified FSP won't be mandatory and won't affect the FSP API
mode coreboot uses.
So the architecture discussion didn't happen. I did some preparation,
though, that I didn't want to abandon. So I wrote a blog post about
some related thoughts:
https://icon.sourcearcade.org/posts/coreboot_not_a_bootloader/
Wish you all some happy holidays,
Nico
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