Re: [coreboot] Suggested readings

[Peter Stuge]

[e-mail] wrote:
> today's "part numbers"/architectures/cpu-families on Intel 
> manuals are them of the QUARK family.

Yes and no. Quark is geared toward makers and hobbyists, seems to
basically be a 486 machine with some funky addons, and Intel has put
a fair bit of effort into documenting it well.

The "regular" x86 platforms are geared toward the Windows market, and
also used by the quickly emerging Chrome market. The Windows market
has, just like x86 machines, a not insignificant structural legacy,
and there is little to no useful documentation available unless you
are an ODM who will turn over millions and millions of devices per
year.

//Peter