[coreboot] Please clarify wiki on git vs releases

[David Hendricks]

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Ian Kelling <iank at fsf.org> wrote:

> The release readme says to read http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO,
> which says to use the latest git sources. The mainpage of the wiki is a
> bit ambiguous, but also leads to that same link under getting
> started. So, you've given the impression that the latest git sources are
> what's recommended to users.
>

I updated the wiki to suggest that the user might wish to check the
supported motherboards page (https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards)
to see if their mainboard is known to work with a particular git hash.

If not, then the latest sources probably are the best bet (though obviously
not guaranteed).



> It seems a bit odd to recommend users to use latest git sources on
> something that can easily cause their system to not boot.
>
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