sorry, i thought about another question about this issue, if intel do not tell us how to run instructions on its cpu and chipset, how could linux run on intel architecture? I'm a newbie, do not know firmware programming very clearly, so ask this silly question here.

thanks!

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@gmail.com> wrote:
AMD is open to sharing details and helping out - it even has two
engineers on this mailing list, doing stuff and support. Intel? None.
No docs, nothing.

Best regards,
                      Tiago Marques


On 6/28/08, Star Liu <minxinjianxin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I checked the supported motherboard page, and found that support for AMD
> CPUs is up to quad-core Opteron, while support for Intel CPUs is only up to
> PIII. Is it because we do not have enough time to develop for Intel CPUs or
> we do not like to develop for Intel CPUs? It seems that, in China, Intel
> CPUs sell better than AMD, I myself have never used AMD cpu computers, so
> I'm a little curious. :)
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