You expected a startup to solve all problems all ADM/Intel have created? That seems like expectation going out of hand.
As he says in the video, what is important is documentation. Their code will serve as open documentation for a lot of those details.
Sure with the next version there will be some changes, but likely much of it will still be the same. And when they upgrade their product they will have to integrate those changes.
For 'stock Linux' to boot like that it would need to add those same low level drivers and I don't know if there is a reason the phased approach shouldn't work on linux.
The hope is for many companies to do this and demand this documentation so that with each new version these things will quickly find their way into the open source software. This is now happening with coreboot where multiple companies collaborate on new CPU generations to get it in before the hardware is even released.
But with fireware there is never this amazing solution anybody can do unless the manufacture simply does it. Its sad but its the reality.
As he says in the video, what is important is documentation. Their code will serve as open documentation for a lot of those details.
Sure with the next version there will be some changes, but likely much of it will still be the same. And when they upgrade their product they will have to integrate those changes.
For 'stock Linux' to boot like that it would need to add those same low level drivers and I don't know if there is a reason the phased approach shouldn't work on linux.
The hope is for many companies to do this and demand this documentation so that with each new version these things will quickly find their way into the open source software. This is now happening with coreboot where multiple companies collaborate on new CPU generations to get it in before the hardware is even released.
But with fireware there is never this amazing solution anybody can do unless the manufacture simply does it. Its sad but its the reality.