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-- mark Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/attachments/20071017/7dbecfee/attachment.html>
