<s>
LinuxBoot	B-Device
is	O
a	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
project	O
aimed	O
at	O
replacing	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
Driver	O
Execution	O
Environment	O
(	O
DXE	O
)	O
modules	O
in	O
Unified	B-Architecture
Extensible	I-Architecture
Firmware	I-Architecture
Interface	I-Architecture
(	O
UEFI	B-Architecture
)	O
firmware	O
with	O
the	O
Linux	B-Application
kernel	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
LinuxBoot	B-Device
must	O
run	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
hardware	O
initialisation	O
software	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
start	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
can	O
be	O
the	O
Pre-EFI	O
Initialization	O
(	O
PEI	O
)	O
part	O
of	O
UEFI	B-Architecture
,	O
coreboot	B-Device
,	O
or	O
U-Boot	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
boot	O
Linux	B-Application
through	O
the	O
kexec	B-Application
syscall	B-Operating_System
,	O
but	O
is	O
also	O
able	O
to	O
boot	O
Windows	B-Application
with	O
a	O
different	O
method	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NERF	O
was	O
a	O
stripped-down	O
version	O
of	O
EFI	B-Architecture
which	O
contains	O
a	O
Linux	B-Application
kernel	I-Application
and	O
userland	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
project	O
has	O
been	O
split	O
up	O
into	O
LinuxBoot	B-Device
(	O
which	O
contains	O
the	O
bootblock	O
and	O
kernel	O
)	O
and	O
u-root	O
,	O
which	O
contains	O
the	O
userland	O
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LinuxBoot	B-Device
became	O
an	O
official	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
Foundation	I-Operating_System
project	O
in	O
2018	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Currently	O
,	O
the	O
EFI	B-Architecture
support	O
of	O
LinuxBoot	B-Device
is	O
limited	O
to	O
a	O
few	O
servers	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
LinuxBoot	B-Device
is	O
in	O
theory	O
also	O
supported	O
on	O
all	O
the	O
mainboards	O
that	O
are	O
supported	O
by	O
the	O
coreboot	B-Device
project	O
,	O
which	O
does	O
include	O
the	O
OCP	O
Monolake	O
.	O
</s>
