[coreboot] Coreboot Bios Compatibility

[Ivan Ivanov]

Good day Raziel, when there is a question about whether a particular
hardware supports coreboot or not, the first thing you could do is to
look through this page :
https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards (no GA-MA790GP-DS4H
there). If there is no entry for your motherboard at this page, next
you could git clone the coreboot source code from
http://review.coreboot.org/coreboot/ and do "make menuconfig" command
in the directory with coreboot sources, then go to Mainboard , choose
your Mainboard Vendor ( Gigabyte ) and then check if it is possible to
select your mainboard model - no GA-MA790GP-DS4H also, but there are
GA-MA785GM-US2H / GA-MA785GMT-UD2H / GA-MA78GM-US2H with a somewhat
similar model number. Now, if you don't see your motherboard there,
you may either to simply buy a motherboard from Supported Motherboards
list, or - maybe try to port a coreboot to your motherboard,
especially if its quite similar to the already-supported motherboard.
E.g. check if those GA-MA785 motherboards have the same chipset as
your GA-MA790. If your motherboard contains the components that are
already supported by coreboot, your chances of getting coreboot on
this motherboard are significantly increasing. Please look through
this page for more info -
https://www.coreboot.org/Motherboard_Porting_Guide - and ask if you
need to clarify something. To overclock you probably need to dive deep
into coreboot sources (luckily its in C not assembly) and maybe also
check the OS overclocking tools such as turionpowercontrol for AMD
CPUs which works under Linux. Also,
https://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO Best regards , Ivan Ivanov

2017-12-03 17:14 GMT+03:00 Raziel in Shambles <noneofur2k14 at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
>
> i'd like to know if it is possible to flash the coreboot bios to my mobo.
>
> If so might i also burden you for a brief tutorial, aside from the one
> provided on coreboot.org, on
>
> how to actually build this bios (f.e. does it need to be i386 or x64, howto
> configure the payload,
>
> is overclocking a possibility etc.).
>
>
> thx in advance
>
>
> Step 1:
>
> see Step 5
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> Step 2:
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> see attach
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> Step 3:
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> see attach
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> Step 4:
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> see attach
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> Step 5:
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> https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-MA790GP-DS4H-rev-10#sp
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>
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