Thanks Peter,
It doesn't sound half as bad I feared it would, honestly. The way I see it, this is what I can and should do:
- Acquire the Ultra 40 M2 machine (just bite the bullet, as there's no other way around.), to be able to run the tests in a first place;
- Buy a couple of blank BIOS chips for that particular board, to use them for flashing various versions of coreboot BIOS images; if anything goes terribly wrong (workstation misbehaves, with any given coreboot image flashed), I can still use the computer with proprietary BIOS.
- Try with the last stable release, where my board is listed as supported (4.8?), then stick to it if all works well;
- Post the test results for functionalities (hmm, where . through mailing list ?), that were marked as >Untested</ >Not working</ >WIP<, as listed in the last update of the table, with a status summary of the board functionalities, or . ?
As you can see, I'm fumbling around and stumbling quite a bit, being overwhelmed by the maze of available information on one hand, and the lack of encouraging up-to-date hints and proofs for the future on the other hand. I suppose this is where the proverbial line >welcome to the moment< comes into play.
Kind regards,
Bostjan