Colleagues across the Pacific

The nice thing about working with a multinational company (MNC) is that I have colleagues from around the world. The far east represents an important location for systems development, including Shanghai and Taipei. Regarding the former, below I had a lunch at the in-famous R&R mentioned in http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2014/12/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-fish.html with Mike Kinney and Bryan Wang last Friday. I've worked with Mike since 1999 and he's one of the original developers of EFI1.02 through his role today in tianocore.org as one of the 3 stewards https://www.mail-archive.com/edk2-devel@lists.01.org/msg08825.html.

Moving from R&R in WA to another important Intel location, Hillsboro, OR, I caught a lunch yesterday with some colleagues from Oregon and Taipei. The below group includes Giri and Maurice. Maurice (2nd from right) is the inventor of the Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP) 1.0 - see his bio in http://www.amazon.com/Embedded-Firmware-Solutions-Development-Practices/dp/1484200713/.

Maurice and Giri (middle) helped drive definition of Intel FSP 1.1 http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/technical-specifications/fsp-architecture-spec-v1-1.pdf, and Page and Elvis (left 2) create the FSP 1.1 implementation https://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/resources/A_Tour_Beyond_BIOS_Creating_the_Intel_Firmware_Support_Package_Version_1_1_with_the_EFI_Developer_Kit_II.pdf and EDKII code to leverage the Intel FSP 1.1 https://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/resources/A_Tour_Beyond_BIOS_Using_the_Intel_Firmware_Support_Package_Version_1_1_with_the_EFI_Developer_Kit_II.pdf.

This group of technologists, with the input and assistance of others, have helped scale the Intel FSP, too. Hints of the successor to Intel FSP 1.1 are now visible in the upstream communities, as noted by http://firmwaresecurity.com/2016/03/15/intel-fsp-2-0-in-the-works/ and now visible at https://github.com/jyao1/FSP2.0.

Again, recall that Intel FSP helps us scale working with various open source communities https://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/resources/SF14_STTS001_102f.pdf

Working with bilingual colleagues is always interesting. If anyone complains about a Chinese engineer's English, I always remind them that their English is often much better than our Mandarin. Over lunch the aforementioned phenomena is sometimes called Chinglish for "Chinese English" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish. I learned from Giri that there's a similar phenomena in India with "Hindi English" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish.

So much for firmware and lunch today. Good tidings and firmware writing.