On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:10 AM Aaron Garza iioliumenii@gmail.com wrote:
Does Coreboot work on every motherboard or does it have to be certain motherboards/PCs?
I have an old Intel Core 2 Quad and an ASUS P5K-E motherboard that I would love to set up with a coreboot BIOS replacement. Is it even possible?
As coreboot does the low level init of hardware, its' support is board-specific of course. If you'd look at coreboot supported boards ( i.e. those with a board status report here - https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html ), there are some ASUS P5*** boards supported. Compare your P5K-E technical specification against these boards, take the most similar one, build a coreboot for it and (after a backup of previous chip contents just in case) try it on your PC - maybe it will work. I've done ASUS P2B build for my friend's ASUS P2B-B board, and it ran fine without any source code modifications at all! Perhaps should add it as a board variant to Kconfig, but I'm too lazy/busy solving the other problems.