On Feb 11, 2008 1:07 PM, Ward Vandewege ward@gnu.org wrote:
BIOS is a part of the reliability and performance promise of the hardware. Chipset specifications at the level being discussed are commonly considered proprietary by all silicon vendors, not just Intel.
There's the real issue. This is pretty much the same line they've taken for the last 7 years. And, actually, not true. Just look at AMD or the ARM or the powerpc or ...
The open source firmware work that Intel *is* sponsoring could lead to a solution where proprietary low-level chipset initialization code from silicon vendors is made compatible with open source higher-level platform initialization and pre-boot management. If you are interested, we invite you to participate at www.tianocore.org.
yep, they've talked about this for 7 years too, and never once delivered. I even had a promise at several different times to have the code "in two weeks". I got the promise, but not the code.
Don't hold your breath.
ron