On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:40:56 -0500, Ken.Fuchs@bench.com wrote:
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Good luck with your Poulsbo (US15W) port, assuming you are willing to spend 6-9 months on it. It could be more or less than that depending on the number of people working on it and their firmware experience.
Joseph Smith wrote:
Hey this is not very encouraging but very discouraging:-( But I'm sure Albert Einstein heard heard things like this every day! Mansoor, if you want to develop coreboot support for the Atom, I say go for it :-)
Supporting Atom on coreboot is (almost) trivial, if one is willing to use the already supported 945/ICH7 chipset and maybe adapt to 945GSE. It may actually take more time to set up a development system than do the few days or a week of porting that the Atom processor may require.
On the other hand, the US15W is likely to consume far more resources and literally stretch into a 9 month or more project. The US15W is not worth the effort, considering all its limitations that I have previously mentioned.
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs