Support
The wiki is being retired!
Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!
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.
- See the Developer Manual for further information.
More Resources
- Laptop page with some information on data gathering.