Contributors per cycle
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
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| coreboot | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 | 4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 4 |
Last took part in 2023
coreboot
Fast, secure and flexible BIOS firmware
Contributors in 2026
–
Not taking part
Projects since 2016
11
2.2 a cycle on average
Cycles
5 of 11
First in 2016
Rank in 2026
–
By contributors
Mentors
2
for 1 project in 2022
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Technologies
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Quick answers
- Is coreboot in GSoC 2026?
- No. It last took part in 2023.
- How long has it taken part?
- 5 of 11 cycles since 2016, first in 2016.
- How many contributors does it usually take?
- 2.2 a cycle on average, 11 in total. Its largest cycle was 2016, with 3.
- What does it build with?
- C, Assembly, Open Hardware, Assembler, Arm, x86.
Accepted projects
2 projects in 2023 · All 11 projects since 2016
Updating old and supporting new compression algorithms
Philipp MacherMentored by Martin Roth
I plan to update the existing LZ4 and LZMA compressions algorithms and as well to add support for new algorithms to compress and decompress data on...
Coreboot POST code cleanup
Yuu
The current codebase contains several Kconfigs that handle POST codes, but they don't have an impact on most platforms. Also, the code responsible...
Console via SMBus
Husni FaizMentored by Raul Rangel, Tim
Not all mainboards have an accessible serial port, but all boards with socketed RAM have a somehow accessible SMBus (used for reading the...
Address Sanitizer for coreboot
Harshit-SharmaMentored by Werner Zeh
Memory safety is hard to achieve. We, as humans, are bound to make mistakes in our code. While it may be straightforward to detect memory corruption...
libgfxinit: Add support for Bay Trail (and maybe Braswell)
Angel PonsMentored by icon
Currently, support for Bay Trail and Braswell hardware is missing from libgfxinit. The project idea is to add support for Bay Trail first, as it is...
Adding QEMU/AArch64 Support to Coreboot
Asami DoiMentored by rrangel, Edward O'Callaghan
We already have some physical mainboards for AArch64. However, we don’t have the support of QEMU/AArch64 yet. ARM-based chips nowadays become popular...
Making Coreboot Coverity Clean
Jacob GarberMentored by dhendrix, Martin Roth, Patrick Georgi
The coreboot project is automatically scanned by Coverity, a free static-analysis tool provided by Synopsis to open source projects. This tool...
Ghidra Firmware Utilities
al3xtjamesMentored by rrangel, Martin Roth
The goal of this project is to develop plugins for Ghidra to assist in firmware reverse engineering. My planned implementation of this project...
Obscure Features, Locking/Unlocking of Access Protection, EEPROMs and CFI
hatimMentored by dhendrix, stefanct
The broad goal is to enhance flashrom by adding new and (somewhat) obscure features and, merging pending patches. This project comprises several...
Better Support for RISC-V Systems
Jonathan NeuschäferMentored by Harvey, Furquan
The goal of this project is to get coreboot running on a physical board with a RISC-V processor. So far, only emulated boards (QEMU and Spike) are...
Panic room - Take a deep breath
avengerf12Mentored by adurbin, Furquan
Coreboot is a firmware that aims at replacing the initialisation process performed by the BIOS or UEFI firmware at each boot of the computer system...
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Data: Google Summer of Code public archive. Contributor counts are accepted projects.