Gary Winiger wrote:
>> Mark A. Carlson wrote:
>>
>>> Which case is the AMT firmware part of?
>>>
>> None. AMT is delivered by Intel as part of their chipset. It falls
>> outside the scope of things that PSARC really has any influence over.
>>
>
> Hummm, so there's no longer any FWARC (or is FWARC not Sun wide-
> but just SPARC)?
>
I'm not sure that even FWARC has any control. This is on firmware on
systems that Sun didn't originally ship.... in other words, consider
the project team for AMT to be Intel. Good luck getting them to come
back to ARC (FWARC or otherwise) for review!
An AMT case might be required for any system that Sun ships with AMT on
the BIOS. (Think an Intel-based upgrade to the Ultra 20.) In that
case, FWARC review would be appropriate, but I'm not sure how happy the
folks on FWARC would be to review a technology that they basically have
little control over. (Even on Sun's potential Intel x86 systems, the
implementation of AMT is provided by Intel firmware which nobody but
Intel has the ability to update.)
-- Garrett
