On Feb 11, 2008 1:07 PM, Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BIOS is a part of the reliability and performance promise of the > hardware. Chipset specifications at the level being discussed are > commonly considered proprietary by all silicon vendors, not just Intel. There's the real issue. This is pretty much the same line they've taken for the last 7 years. And, actually, not true. Just look at AMD or the ARM or the powerpc or ... > > The open source firmware work that Intel *is* sponsoring could lead to a > solution where proprietary low-level chipset initialization code from > silicon vendors is made compatible with open source higher-level > platform initialization and pre-boot management. If you are interested, > we invite you to participate at www.tianocore.org. yep, they've talked about this for 7 years too, and never once delivered. I even had a promise at several different times to have the code "in two weeks". I got the promise, but not the code. Don't hold your breath. ron -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
