On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Piotr Kempa piotr.kempa@sigarden.com wrote:
- I hear rumors that Intel is generally against coreboot (maybe
somebody could prove me wrong here?) because they're betting on their own (U)EFI system, which is more or less 'closed'. Which is why I doubt any Intel guys would really help us. But if you (Intel guys) are out there and reading this and willing to help, please prove me wrong!
intel is a business. According to other companies that have built coreboot in the past, if you make the business case to intel, you can get support.
- Because of 1 above, even if we get necessary documentation on chipset
and CPU, I fear Intel can legally forbid us from using this documentation to contribute to coreboot (with NDA or something), so we would not be able to use their documents to write open source code. This is a legal problem and I'm far from being a lawyer so this might be much more complicated (or simple) than I'm imagining.
I think you should try.
ron