As pointed out in other threads on the forum, Intel is looking to provide the access to Quark in an upcoming release, "hopefully before the end of the year", so I am confident that it is forth coming and appreciate the amount of effort to test and then document well so that it satisfies the many facets of this group.
ARK | Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 (16K Cache, 400 MHz) ... and the Galileo forums clearly show that once accessed, it is a very powerful component already included on the Edison SoC.
As a maker, I could say that I also faced a similar type of concern of the unknown, so I can relate. The realization of board designs change. Myself, I will probably implement v1 with the capabilities I have now, and v2 with extended capabilities I'll have later. And if I am at a point where my mass production relies so heavily on me knowing, I am sure I would have already signed any NDAs required and possibly selected other chips and components to suit. You begin to worry about board design, that is a level where the designers (including your embedded engineers at Intel) are more than capable of working those things out.
