On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 9:02 AM ingegneriaforense@alice.it < ingegneriaforense@alice.it> wrote:
Please, can you tell me if Coreboot is motherboard architecture dependent or simply I can download it, compile and flash the .rom file in the Bios chip ?
no. no no no no no.
How many spare BIOS chips do you have? You need at least 2.
Coreboot is board dependent. And in some cases, you can take two boards with the same exact part number, made two different days, and one will work and one will not.
Welcome to the PC world.
If you have a new board, with a new chipset, and it's intel, assume it will take a good solid 6 months to a year if you have done this before.
coreboot is not a kernel. You don't just load it like you do an OS.
I will do the first test on a PC with motherboard: MSI MS-7168 ver. 1C mounting an AMD Athlon 64 Processor.
I don't see this mainboard in the source tree. This means you have a long way to go before it can work. If you have not done this before you should start with an already supported board.
Is it necessary I compile Coreboot on the PC where I want to install it ?
no
Is Coreboot RAM dependent ? That is, can I start-up the PC with only the Processor and the BIOS chip, without RAM and hard-disk ?
what do you expect to do without RAM?
You need to experiment with coreboot in qemu before you start working on hardware.
ron