On Sat, 2022-04-02 at 13:14 +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: > Michael Niewöhner wrote: > > It feels this is the usual "but what if *someone* out there *needs/wants* > > it?". > > Not quite, it's "why delete it if it might work?". This is still > ideological of course, so the question becomes what we find valuable. > > I e.g. do not consider it at all valuable to only keep code for the > last n Intel platform generations, in spite of knowing that only > those have any value whatsoever for the vast majority of coreboot users.
Keeping platforms where there is no active interest is burden for those doing tree / architecture / platform family wide changes. soc/intel is the best example for that. Also, often changes to common code (like soc/intel, again) have unforseeable impact on untested platforms. Thus, it doesn't make *any* sense, keeping them "just because". Getting such changes merged without anyone being able to test a specific platform that is being kept "just because" is nearly impossible. Take a look at soc/intel/common changes, where xeon-sp and denverton regularly sled in. > But coreboot is not a company and thus not restricted to only value > market demand or otherwise proven utility. We can have other values > and I do. > > > > Does anyone know if the platform still works, at all? > > Does anyone know that the platform *doesn't* work? See above. I bet it's broken already. (Last publicly known test 2017, as I alreay mentioned.) > > Are there any practical concerns whatsoever? > > > For me, at a very minimum both those questions must have a yes answer > to qualify deletion. No, IMO it's exactly the other way round. Prove that it still works. > > Reducing scope is always satisfying but that's not a good reason to > delete platforms. > > It is of course very easy to manufacture practical concerns, but > maybe that's a fair enough hurdle for arbitrary deletion... Nothing in this discussion is "arbitrary". Reasons are quite clear, but they seem to be ignored. > //Peter Michael _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
