having read this discussion, and with all respect for all the opinions so clearly expressed, I still support Arthur's original proposal.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 2:20 PM David Hendricks <david.hendri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 1. These boards will be gone for the people who check the "mainboards >> supported by coreboot" and see only the "new Intel stuff". This >> hinders the coreboot community growth around the "gone boards", and >> also of the coreboot community in general: the fewer boards are >> supported by coreboot, the more difficult it is for a potential >> user/contributor to find the supported board and join us. > > > For the record, we have removed Intel boards from the master branch in the > past - See 4.11_branch. This was for boards that used FSP 1.0, including > popular Baytrail Atom and Broadwell-DE platforms which are still widely used > today. This ensures that those platforms continue existence on an > easy-to-find stable branch where one can reasonably expect to check out the > code and have it work. Checking out the master branch only to find out that > it doesn't work and then bisecting years worth of commits is a poor user > experience. > > Perhaps we should follow the 4.11_branch example and do something similar > with old AGESA boards? Boards which are forward-ported and tested can stay > (or be re-introduced) in the master branch, of course. > > Many of the AGESA platforms in the list Arthur provided are ~10 years old. > Some are clearly obsolete, like the Gizmosphere boards that have not been in > production for years and whose manufacturer is defunct. Others like the > PCEngines APUs should be more readily available to test and have developers > able to spend some time forward-porting the necessary bits. > > Lastly, I'll mention that there is an active crowdfunding effort to > re-upstream KGPE-D16 support: https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/719. > There's clearly a lot of enthusiasm with that board, and 3mdeb is already > porting allocate v4 to it. Perhaps enthusiasts for other boards can piggyback > on this effort and leverage some of their work to bring other boards up to > date. _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org
