This is what I would like to do, ideally. However, there are two points to note here:
1. 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!
2. 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.
Taking both into account if we get docs and a green light from Intel to work on coreboot using those docs, I'll be more than happy on sharing all our developments and if they are working well, maybe they can even be included in the main project trunk, who knows?
Piotr
Karl-Heinz Nirschl wrote:
hi,
this would be a very interessting platform! maybe you could put your ideas on the moblin mailing list - there should be some intel guys around that may be able to help you.
would be great to hear about the progress.
cheers,
khn
2008/10/6 Piotr Kempa piotr.kempa@sigarden.com:
Hi,
Yes, it has to be Atom, we're too far down that road to turn back. We're working on getting docs, but haven't got them yet. If we can't get them, reverse engineering is probably out of the question - too much effort vs not very good reliability probably.
Piotr
ron minnich wrote:
does it have to be an atom? Not a Via or AMD part?
can you get docs?
ron
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
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
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ron minnich