"We used open source software as much as possible."
Non-free software coming from intel? Shocker.
This seems to be another of those times where you get exited looking into the
promise of something but maddeningly there is some non-freedeom included with
no easy way to skirt it. Nice to have the no NDAs for mods and it's nice to
be able to use free software for the graphics card on these, but I agree that
we may be hosed anyway.
Here's something I found from one of the devs though (ray of hope?):
"One way we could resolve this problem is to have a Compatibility Support
Module (CSM) for UEFI that supports legacy boot mode. It may be
possible that this could be implemented with (free) software
(SeaBIOS (LGPLv3)), and I have someone investigating that, but I don't have
an
ETA for when that will be released, nor can I promise this is going to
work for all OSes. I'll try to keep folks posted on this as I hear more
information."
-Scott Garman
-Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
-Intel Open Source Technology Center
