After last week's meeting I did have one thought: keeping a 'best of breed' example board for each generation of DRAM might be useful. E.g. one good board for SDRAM, DDR2, DDR3. Just pick a really good one and mark it as an example.
I realize it's all in git but out of sight is out of mind. My old favorite would the first sis630 board or the intel/l440gx simply because they were the very first ones and because of sdram. To this day I think the work Stefan did on the getac and i945 is a great read for memory training. ron On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:02 PM taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > I don't think that trying to support every 10+ year old board is worth > it, but at least a few from each genre (desktop, server/workstation and > embedded) should be required to be ported for a style change to occur > rather than everything simply abandoned as there wasn't anyone willing > to update it. > > AFAIK as of now every non-development AMD board will be dropped in a few > release cycles, I am not a firmware developer but I can't understand as > to how a code style change makes that worth it especially considering > many of those are the last and latest owner controlled x86 devices. > > In terms of vendor support (for the very few that do that); the majority > of coreboot boards are in the expensive server or the embedded category > so I don't think that it is unreasonable to expect the hypothetical > vendor that releases code and advertises coreboot support to directly > support for both initial release equivalent functionality and security > it for 2x the hw warranty (as that is generally a useful life for most > hardware) > > The "standard" 3 and now even 1 year update lifecycle that comes with > hardware is creating a massive internet security issue. > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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