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Reproducible Coreboot

Reproducible builds enable anyone to reproduce bit by bit identical binary packages from a given source, so that anyone can verify that a given binary derived from the source it was said to be derived. There is more information about reproducible builds on the Debian wiki and on https://reproducible-builds.org. These pages explain in more depth why this is useful, what common issues exist and which workarounds and solutions are known.

Reproducible Coreboot is an effort to apply this to coreboot. Thus each coreboot.rom is build twice (without payloads), with a few variations added and then those two ROMs are compared using diffoscope. Please note that the toolchain is not varied at all as the rebuild happens on exactly the same system. More variations are expected to be seen in the wild.

There is a weekly run jenkins job to test the master branch of coreboot.git. The jenkins job is running reproducible_coreboot.sh in a Debian environment and this script is solely responsible for creating this page. Feel invited to join #reproducible-builds (on irc.oftc.net) to request job runs whenever sensible. Patches and other feedback are very much appreciated - if you want to help, please start by looking at the ToDo list for coreboot, you might find something easy to contribute.
Thanks to IONOS for donating the virtual machines this is running on!

172 (100.0%) out of 172 built coreboot images were reproducible in our test setup ! These tests were last run on 2026-05-18 for version 26.03-717-g7ce4a2f19c using diffoscope 318.

variationfirst buildsecond build
hostname osuosl1-amd64 or osuosl2-amd64the other one
domainname is not yet varied between rebuilds of coreboot.
env CAPTURE_ENVIRONMENTnot setCAPTURE_ENVIRONMENT="I capture the environment"
env TZTZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+12"TZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-14"
env LANGLANG="en_GB.UTF-8"LANG="et_EE.UTF-8"
env LC_ALLnot setLC_ALL="et_EE.UTF-8"
env PATHPATH="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:"PATH="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/i/capture/the/path"
env USER is not yet varied between rebuilds of coreboot.
uid is not yet varied between rebuilds of coreboot.
gid is not yet varied between rebuilds of coreboot.
UTS namespace is not yet varied between rebuilds of coreboot.
kernel version, modified using /usr/bin/linux64 --uname-2.6Linux 6.12.88+deb13-amd64Linux 2.6.72+deb13-amd64
umask00220002
CPU type Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)same for both builds
/bin/sh is not yet varied between rebuilds of coreboot.
year, month, datetoday (2026-05-18)same for both builds (currently, work in progress)
hour, minutehour and minute will probably vary between two builds...the future system actually runs 398 days, 6 hours and 23 minutes ahead...
Filesystemtmpfssame for both builds (currently, this could be varied using disorderfs)
everything else...is likely the same. There will be more variations in the wild.

commit 7ce4a2f19c882a8a90edd83f4f92c888fd72e424
Author: Matt DeVillier 
Date:   Sun May 17 16:37:29 2026 +0000

    Revert "src/soc/qualcomm: Remove include "
    
    This reverts commit d58fd0e3d3da7eef492cbf102f7363caf587bc87.
    
    missed the dependency way down the patch train
    
    Change-Id: I0f4a0b452395cadd90b98c16e68a33108e556da8
    Signed-off-by: Matt DeVillier 
    Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/92802
    Reviewed-by: Martin L Roth 
    Reviewed-by: Subrata Banik 
    Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)

cross toolchain sourcesha256sum
acpica-unix-20251212.tar.gz 486423245f8154dd0bb5ada9ae057d670210dcbbc4386e62aeccdf5bfdad5f19
binutils-2.45.1.tar.xz 5fe101e6fe9d18fdec95962d81ed670fdee5f37e3f48f0bef87bddf862513aa5
gcc-15.2.0.tar.xz 438fd996826b0c82485a29da03a72d71d6e3541a83ec702df4271f6fe025d24e
gmp-6.3.0.tar.xz a3c2b80201b89e68616f4ad30bc66aee4927c3ce50e33929ca819d5c43538898
mpc-1.3.1.tar.gz ab642492f5cf882b74aa0cb730cd410a81edcdbec895183ce930e706c1c759b8
mpfr-4.2.2.tar.xz b67ba0383ef7e8a8563734e2e889ef5ec3c3b898a01d00fa0a6869ad81c6ce01
Debian 13.5 package on amd64installed version
gcc 4:14.2.0-1
g++ 4:14.2.0-1
make 4.4.1-2
cmake 3.31.6-2
flex 2.6.4-8.2+b4
bison 2:3.8.2+dfsg-1+b2
pkg-config 1.8.1-4

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Last update: 2026-05-18 14:16 UTC