[coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family

[mrnuke]

On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 08:41:10 AM ron minnich wrote:
> This license still looks problematical to me. Couple that with the
> fact that the Haswell MRC is still not generally available from Intel
> and I'm a bit concerned.
> 
> If I build a coreboot image with FSP, am I allowed to put it on
> dropbox for others to try out? Not clear at all!
> 
> And, "one backup copy"? Do the people who wrote this understand how
> things in this world work?
> 
> This is progress, and Intel gets closer every time, but they're still
> not there in my view.
> 
How is this progress? It's a much more terrible solution than MRC, much harder 
to integrate, and the only step it really leaves us with control over is 
resource allocation. Resource allocation is one of coreboot's strongest 
points. It seems to me this is just an attempt to use coreboot's resource 
allocator in a proprietary firmware. That is a clear attempt to circumvent the 
wishes of the rightsholders to this project.

Nobody asked us how such binaries could best be incorporated. The currently 
provided solution is so hard to integrate that reverse engineering is a viable 
alternative.

Google did a reasonable job with mrc.bin. Not ideal, but vastly superior to 
FSP. The last time we've had FSP support added to our tree, it was a mess. It 
broke things across the tree. I'd like for that to not happen again.

> 
> INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
> 
Declined, thank you!

Alex