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Payloads

A payload is the program that runs on the system after coreboot has initialized the hardware. The payload is usually a bootloader, or something that could load bootloaders.

Libreboot currently supports three payloads: SeaBIOS, GRUB2, and U-Boot. (SeaBIOS is not available on ARM.)