Joseph Smith wrote:
Without documentation, it becomes nearly impossible. Somebody look at the Barcelona memory initialization code and tell me they could have figured it out on their own. I'm thinking not.
So we have to be blatantly obvious about what our shortcomings are. You can believe all you want in the power of open source, but the truth of the matter is that 90% of all the people who come on this list to ask for a particular port are not interested in doing the work themselves,
And that maybe part of the problem with Intel hardware, everyone wants it but noone wants to work for it. I am far too familure with this, trust me.
I don't think it's a matter of "noone _wants_ to work for it" but rather a question of Intel ports not being economically justifiable by those who are interested in doing so. Getting supported AMD hardware is cheaper and works out of the box. I am very curious to hear your story though. It's a major issue and the coreboot project has to solve it some time. We're not Robin Hood just because we ignore the "big guys"
We (coresystems) are working on support for newer Intel chipsets. But it's a long and cumbersome path to walk.
Stefan