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There are several steps involved in finding out whether your mainboard is supported by coreboot, or if it would be easy to support. | There are several steps involved in finding out whether your mainboard is supported by coreboot, or if it would be easy to support. | ||
* First, check the [[Supported Motherboards]]. If your mainboard is not mentioned here, you will have to know how to code C in order to proceed. | * First, check the [[Supported Motherboards]]. If your mainboard is in this list, you are lucky and you will be able to try coreboot. | ||
* If your mainboard is not mentioned here, you will have to know how to code C in order to proceed. If you don't, refrain from trying to get coreboot onto your system. | |||
* Next, you will have to do a lot of data gathering: | |||
** Check out your mainboard's chipset. Use lspci on Linux/*BSD to do this. Look at the host bridge and at the LPC bridge. If you find those in our list of [[Supported Chipsets and Devices]] a port might be easy. | |||
** If your chipset is supported, check out the SuperIO with [[Superiotool]] | |||
** Look for a board that has the same chipset and the same SuperIO and start from there. Make sure you have a backup solution in place to recover if something goes wrong. You can not use your vendor bios' recovery bootblock to do this. | |||
Revision as of 02:01, 14 January 2011
Is my mainboard supported?
There are several steps involved in finding out whether your mainboard is supported by coreboot, or if it would be easy to support.
- First, check the Supported Motherboards. If your mainboard is in this list, you are lucky and you will be able to try coreboot.
- If your mainboard is not mentioned here, you will have to know how to code C in order to proceed. If you don't, refrain from trying to get coreboot onto your system.
- Next, you will have to do a lot of data gathering:
- Check out your mainboard's chipset. Use lspci on Linux/*BSD to do this. Look at the host bridge and at the LPC bridge. If you find those in our list of Supported Chipsets and Devices a port might be easy.
- If your chipset is supported, check out the SuperIO with Superiotool
- Look for a board that has the same chipset and the same SuperIO and start from there. Make sure you have a backup solution in place to recover if something goes wrong. You can not use your vendor bios' recovery bootblock to do this.