On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:59 AM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
The truth here is that we NEED to have a blob-free version (libreboot), so I have a lot of work ahead of me :)
How much time and money for the RE effort did you have again? It needs to be a lot. Were I you I would not expect much help from the vendor to RE their code :-)
Time was measured in months. Not weeks nor years. Funds varied, which is why we are gathering interested developers to get some quotes to propose funding the effort.
And you're still going to need the microcode blob, almost certainly, unless you don't like having a working main board.
We require blob-free and a working main board, so this sounds like a really challenging RE effort indeed!
If you NEED blob-free, you may need to go ARM.
We cannot easily (actually it would be quite impossible) to move from the Intel hardware at this point.
Todd.