Thanks Peter. > Brian Milliron wrote: > > Can you elaborate on what factors determine whether setting up > > coreboot on a previously unsupported laptop takes days or years? > > Mainboards are more or less modified reference designs for a given > platform, where platform means the combination of Intel or AMD chips > intended to be used together. > > coreboot supports several or even many platforms, but not all, and > more than likely the support for each platform covers only what is > required for the supported mainboards using that platform.
I see an option for an Intel Cometlake reference board in the menuconfig. Does that mean the platform is supported? > If your platform is supported to some degree but your specific > mainboard is not then you have to understand the exact details of all > differences between your mainboard and the general platform support > in coreboot. > > Maybe there is no code for things you require or maybe it's there but > you must correctly describe how your hardware differs from a reference > design or one particular supported mainboard. > > Those differences are usually never well-documented, are never > purposely published and are quite unlikely to ever leak. Leaked > schematics can be helpful, but may not always suffice. > > This means another pile of unknowns to first discover and then study > in depth. It has previously been suggested to me to use the inteltool to get information about the GPIOs which I have done. Is this all that is needed or is there more? I ask because I have no access to proprietary board schematics or other documentation, just the tools I can find on github or in coreboot itself. If that isn't going to give me the info I need, I will need to return this laptop and get another. _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
