[coreboot] Re: [RFC] How should we manage tree-wide changes?

2021-05-07 Thread Julius Werner
> > Rebasing for security seems odd. Usually one has to re-evaluate security > > completely after a rebase. In my experience, security features randomly > > break upstream like everything else. There is no stability guarantee. > > Maybe it is odd, but backporting Intel Boot Guard or vboot to old

[coreboot] Releasing coreboot 4.14 (on Monday)

2021-05-07 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Hi everybody, I still plan to do the coreboot release on Monday (or, if things are really bad, on Tuesday), even though I'm somewhat behind on our checklist. This means we are at the https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/checklist.html#week-prior-to-release stage. Therefore, if you have hardware and

[coreboot] Re: ACPI SSDT Help

2021-05-07 Thread Rocky Phagura via coreboot
Tim, Thanks for the feedback _STA is certainly an option. I ended up implementing the hex file method and having iasl do the compilation. When the patch is ready I’ll submit it for review. Basically I’ve created a new definition block for the ASL code that needs to be loaded dynamically.