Hello,
I have been wondering if anybody picked up the work on Intel Menlow platform (Silverthorne/Atom CPU & Poulsbo chipset)? I saw some past posts from people interested but I could not find anything further, so maybe this is a dead end right now. I'm a part of a small company (called SiGarden) that is in progress of designing a MID/UMPC device and we consider using coreboot as the BIOS (booting Linux). We just need a minimal system initialization, enough only to boot Linux (Ubuntu Mobile distro). I want to estimate the effort to adapt coreboot to our system. Now since we are the system designer, it should be a bit easier for us since we know what is inside and everything. I understand we still need Intel documentation on the chipset and CPU initialization and we are in contact with them although we haven't received anything of the sort yet and I understand it is going to be a tough battle to win :)
Getting back to the subject: if anybody is working on Menlow/Poulsbo then it would be best if we joined efforts instead of working separate, I think. Please let me know!
Thanks, Piotr Kempa SiGarden
does it have to be an atom? Not a Via or AMD part?
can you get docs?
ron
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
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