On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 12:39:59PM +0100, Nico Huber wrote:
> > Some of the mega patches are copies of a predecessor chip (with the
> > minimum amount of changes to integrate it in the build), that are
> > then modified to fit the new chip.
>
> Ack. I think that is a problem. If this procedure is
Hi again all,
I took part in (half of) a leadership meeting last night, and I was
impressed by two things that I didn't expect:
1. Few people seem to take the might of Git into account. We have a
tool that can significantly increase the efficiency of development
and can help to preempt bugs
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 12:05:44PM +0100, Nico Huber wrote:
> 1. Few people seem to take the might of Git into account. We have a
Git is rather limited in some respects: For example it has no notion
of a copy (except by using interesting merge hacks: create a branch
where you rename, merge the two
Hi Patrick,
thank you for your response. I really appreciate that somebody helps
to clear things up.
On 07.11.19 15:58, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 12:05:44PM +0100, Nico Huber wrote:
>> 1. Few people seem to take the might of Git into account. We have a
> Git is rather limite
On 07.11.19 12:05, Nico Huber wrote:
> 1. Few people seem to take the might of Git into account. We have a
>tool that can significantly increase the efficiency of development
>and can help to preempt bugs. But many people would accept a process
>that breaks Git benefits. Especially with
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:45:39AM +0100, Nico Huber wrote:
> On 07.11.19 12:05, Nico Huber wrote:
> > 1. Few people seem to take the might of Git into account. We have a
> >tool that can significantly increase the efficiency of development
> >and can help to preempt bugs. But many people w
Looks like I'm too late to the party here, but I just read this and
wanted to also come out in support of what Nico said. I think the
endless copy&pasting that seems to have happened 5-10 years ago in
coreboot left us with pretty awful maintainability consequences and we
should (and I think we most
> I think most of this is changing and has changed already (like Patrick
> said it happened gradually) -- these days most chipset code for both
> x86 and Arm is in src/soc/vendor/common, and most new mainboards use
> the variant system. Whenever I see a patch of someone copy&pasting a
> lot of code
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