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by aquayellow 5378 days ago
Yes, you are right. Actually, it's just the bootloader. So, technically Microsoft can come up with a bootloader (GPLed) that can boot Linux or modify the current one. My bad!

Regarding the "kernel is part of the bootloader" idea, I think that was just an idea :) That's not happening anytime soon, although you can give Linux as a stage 2 payload directly to coreboot currently.