Quoting Remi Lefevre rlefevre@gmail.com:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Remi Lefevre rlefevre@gmail.com Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [coreboot] Intel Core 2 Duo L7400 with MB chipset Intel 7100 To: ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com
Hi Ron,
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:59 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
It's a lot harder with Intel CPUs as they will not help you.
AMD on the other hand will help you-- they support coreboot.
Do you have to use Intel CPUs?
Why do you talk only about Intel CPU ? Isn't the chipset (3100) more difficult to integrate than the CPU ?
To answer your question, we have a very (I mean very) long life cycle on our product, and my hardware team seems to think (perhaps not wrongly) that they will be able to support Intel CPU longer than AMD ones... (they may change their mind with good arguments, but I doubt it, or they will propose ppc). And yes, I'm the software part ;)
I have to understand that I would have to do a lot of reverse engeniering for Intel support (too bad they don't support this kind of Industry need).
I agree, it is really too bad they don't jump aboard the coreboot train, they are the ones getting left behind.......
Thanks - Joe