I wonder if any one knows about some forums or sites for asking questions about the data sheets contents of mother board ICs. I am investing about Intel ICs. Though Intel has some forums but they are inactive and questions remain unanswered. Is there any active site to discuss Intel data sheets? Regards
ali hagigat wrote:
Is there any active site to discuss Intel data sheets?
Not really. :\
The proper forum for those discussions would be with your assigned Intel FAE. Of course, then you need to have access to one, which basically requires a large quantity project to make it interesting for Intel to assign some resources. You'll also need to sign a couple of NDAs. Pretty few people in the world have access to the information that is required to write firmware for PCs with Intel components.
//Peter
On 04/06/2011 02:19 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
ali hagigat wrote:
Is there any active site to discuss Intel data sheets?
Not really. :\
Well, now and then there might be some people on #coreboot that have a nibble of extra knowledge on a specific topic, but nothing that would sum up to the end goal of writing firmware (read "writing firmware for _intel_ hardware").
You'll also need to sign a couple of NDAs.
Just a couple? I heard it takes way over 6(six) months to get the paperwork done.
Alex
Alex G. wrote:
You'll also need to sign a couple of NDAs.
Just a couple?
Yeah.
I heard it takes way over 6(six) months to get the paperwork done.
I guess it depends. I've heard similar from coreboot community, but I've also talked to an Intel (embedded) FAE who had seen customers go through the paperwork in just a few weeks. In general the embedded guys seem to be a little more eager. :)
//Peter
Hello Peter,
Thank you very much to respond. I have the necessary data sheets now but some lines of the documents are ambiguous and obscure. I do not want to take up your time much but I wonder if I can ask you these questions. I can send you the data sheets and specify the lines we are going to talk about.
Regards PS. If anybody else can help me, please let me know and please specify if I contact you personally or by Coreboot mailing list.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
ali hagigat wrote:
Is there any active site to discuss Intel data sheets?
Not really. :\
The proper forum for those discussions would be with your assigned Intel FAE. Of course, then you need to have access to one, which basically requires a large quantity project to make it interesting for Intel to assign some resources. You'll also need to sign a couple of NDAs. Pretty few people in the world have access to the information that is required to write firmware for PCs with Intel components.
//Peter
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If you can redistribute those datasheets, I assume they are not under NDA, which means they are the public datasheets available on Intel's site.
If they are public datasheets, you can simply reference the link and the page number. If they are not public, but you have the right to quote them, you may quote the ambiguous sections (within context) on the mailing list.
Alex
On 04/06/2011 02:35 PM, ali hagigat wrote:
Hello Peter,
Thank you very much to respond. I have the necessary data sheets now but some lines of the documents are ambiguous and obscure. I do not want to take up your time much but I wonder if I can ask you these questions. I can send you the data sheets and specify the lines we are going to talk about.
Regards PS. If anybody else can help me, please let me know and please specify if I contact you personally or by Coreboot mailing list.
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