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[WIP] Documentation/basics: Add glossary

The glossary is to contain common abbreviations and specific vocabulary.

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+# Glossary
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+## Intro
+This page explains the most common abbreviations and terms. It also contains additional reference for some more detailed info.
+
+## Intel-specific
+
+- IFD: Intel Flash Descriptor\
+    The Intel Flash Descriptor is used on Intel platforms to split the contents of a flash chip into multiple parts (regions).
+    Most boards contain the following regions:
+    * ifd
+    * me
+    * gbe
+    * bios
+    * platform data
+- ME: Intel Management Engine
+	The Intel Management Engine is a co-processor that runs proprietary code which resides next to the bios-firmware within the "me" flash-region.
+	On older platforms it is possible to disable the ME by removing the code from the flash-chip. Since Sandybridge it is only possible to disable the ME by removing most parts of it and making it crash on startup, disabling a watchdog that shuts off the whole system 30 minutes after startup. Since Skylake it not possible to remove anything from the ME without breaking it.
+- GbE: Gigabit Ethernet
+	This regions contains a firmware blob for Intel Gigabit Ethernet hardware. It is usually not used for mainboards that dont have Intel Gigabit ethernet onboard.
+- BIOS: Basic Input Output System
+	The BIOS region contains the firmware that is required to boot up and initialize the system/mainboard. This is the region where coreboot is usually written to.   
+
+## coreboot-specific
+- CBFS: coreboot file system
+	The coreboot filesystem contains the files that are require for coreboot to work, such as the bootblock, payloads and romstage/ramstage binaries.
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