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Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards

Written by Michael Larabel in Coreboot on 25 June 2026 at 08:39 PM EDT. 6 Comments

Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms.

Coreboot, long ago known as LinuxBIOS, continues becoming more and more viable with each new release for both new hardware as well as aging hardware platform.

Ahead of Intel Nova Lake debuting in the months ahead, Coreboot 26.06 already has initial Nova Lake SoC support thanks to Intel engineers. Paired with the Intel FSP modules, the initial Nova Lake support is in place paired with capable reference boards and some early Google work. Meanwhile for current generation Intel Panther Lake SoCs, there is now support for UFS inline encryption and a variety of other features. The Panther Lake SoC continues to be focused on relevant Google Chromebook devices.

Coreboot 26.06 also brings improvements for older Intel platforms, boot performance enhancements, Zstd decompression with the Intel FSP 2.0 driver. In-Band ECC is now controllable at run-time, and more.

Over on the AMD side, Coreboot 26.06 has initial support for the Ryzen AI Max 300 series, Strix Halo. Various changes for Strix Halo were upstreamed to Coreboot over the existing Ryzen AI 300 series Strix Point support. For now though just the AMD Maple reference board is supported for the lone Strix Halo target with Coreboot.

The AMD support in Coreboot has also improved at large in now having ROM Armor 2 support with A/B recovery infrastructure for failed BIOS loads.

Qualcomm also upstreamed their Calypso SoC support as the Snapdragon X adaptation for upcoming Google Chromebooks.

Newly-added motherboards with Coreboot 26.06 include:<br>- AMD Crater for V2000A SoC<br>- AMD Jaguar for Faegan SoC<br>- AMD Maple for Strix Halo SoC<br>- ASRock H370M-ITX/ac<br>- ASRock Z87 Extreme6<br>- ASUS H81M-K<br>- ASUS Maximus VI EXTREME<br>- ASUS Maximus VI FORMULA<br>- ASUS Maximus VI HERO<br>- ASUS Maximus VII IMPACT<br>- ASUS Maximus VI IMPACT<br>- ASUS Maximus VII RANGER<br>- ASUS P8H61-I R2.0<br>- ASUS P8H61-M LX2<br>- ASUS PRIME H610M-K D4<br>- ASUS Z87-K<br>- Framework Laptop 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1)<br>- Framework Laptop 13 Pro (Intel Core Ultra Series 3)<br>- Google Atria<br>- Google C1nv<br>- Google Calypso<br>- Google Dirkson<br>- Google Mensa<br>- Google Penghu<br>- Google R2d2<br>- Google Sheev<br>- Lenovo ThinkPad X61 / X61s<br>- Star Labs Byte Mk I (Ryzen 7 5800U)<br>- Star Labs StarBook Mk VI (Ryzen 7 5800U)<br>- System76 bonw15-b<br>- System76 gaze20

31 new motherboards! Granted, many of them are reference boards and Google Chromebook designs. But there are various ASUS motherboards, newer Framework laptops, and also more System76 and Star Labs hardware.

More details on today's Coreboot 26.06 release via Coreboot.org.

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