[coreboot] Add Support for Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Ken,


first off topic.

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Am Freitag, den 13.04.2012, 23:31 -0500 schrieb Ken Phillis Jr:
> Just another board support request... If there's any other information that
> is required, please ask me...
> 
> General Board information:
> ===============================================================================
> Vendor: GIGABYTE
> Model: GA-MA790XT-UD4P (rev. 1.0)
> Product Page: http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3010
> North Bridge:  AMD 790X
> South Bridge: AMD SB750

[…]

As Peter wrote, you need to do the port yourself. Two good things
though, coreboot folks will help you if you have problems and your
components seem to be supported. So if you are willing to spend some
time, you should be able to complete that port.

Please read the coreboot Wiki. You need to make sure to recover. Is the
flash chip socketed on your board? If yes, just get some back up chips,
find an already supported board similar to yours, build an image,
connect a second system over serial line to capture debugging output and
work your way through it. If something fails, just boot the system with
your back up flash chip, switch the flash chip and write another
(hopefully improved) image to it.

We are looking forward to your port!


Thanks,

Paul


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