On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Piotr Kempa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
