This didn't get any discussion when it was initially posted, so I want to make sure there are no objections.
I'll post the notice of the removal in the 4.17 release notes unless there's a reason to keep Ice Lake code around. This will be removed from the master branch after the 4.19 release. Martin Jan 4, 2022, 12:33 by [email protected]: > Good day folks, > > In a recent change[0], it was proposed that we drop support for the Intel Ice > Lake platform. > The only mainboard supporting the platform was the Intel RVP, but as far as > anyone knows, > it appears the project never progressed past the initial silicon, and so the > code is now > unmaintained and also unused. Since Ice Lake is very similar to TGL & ADL, it > poses a > maintenance burden when dealing with Intel common code e.g., anything in > src/soc/intel/common. > > According to [1], this should be announced in upcoming release notes first, > and removal > could happen in 6 months. > > Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why we should keep it around, > otherwise let's update the upcoming release notes to give the "official" > notice > that it will be dropped. > Cheers, > - Tim > > [0]> https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/60053 > [1]> https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/templates.html > _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
