[coreboot] Newbie question about motherboard support

[Nico Huber]

On 03.11.2016 21:42, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> привет,
> 
> On 11/03/2016 01:17 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
>>
>> > I don't know enough about Intel to tell you whether your board is
>> > using BootGuard or how you would find that out, though. If it does,
>> > you're probably out of luck. (If it doesn't, it's true that you still
>> > need blobs... but you can usually extract these from your vendor
>> > firmware and work them into a coreboot image.)

BootGuard would be a showstopper if it is supported by Braswell (I have
no idea) and Acer enabled it (unlikely).

>>
>> I'm still waiting for intel guys ,I think that they can say more about
>> this.
>>
> On Braswell you'll need blobs (of course). You need ME (Management
> Engine) and FSP (firmware support package) blobs.

Usually you only need the latter which would be integrated into coreboot
and is freely available (see intel.com/fsp). You should be able to re-
use the other blobs that are already installed into your device (they
coexists with coreboot and don't have to be touched when installing
coreboot).

Nico

> I am not sure if you can legally obtain the blobs from Intel, but you
> can extract them from Chrome images.
> 
> Best,
> Andrey
> 
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