Piotr Kempa | 7 Oct 12:40

Re: Intel Menlow platform again - is anybody working on this?

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.
> 
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ron minnich | 7 Oct 16:30

Re: Intel Menlow platform again - is anybody working on this?

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Piotr Kempa <piotr.kempa <at> sigarden.com> wrote:

> 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!

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.

>
> 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.
>

I think you should try.

ron

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