Rating System
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Rating System
At the coreboot summit in Denver we talked about a rating system for supported boards. The idea is to make it clear which boards are most highly recommended because the vendors cooperate.
To get to such a rating for a particular board, we should establish a list of categories with an associated score.
Adding up the scores for the major components on a board (cpu, chipsets, mainboard, others?) would give us a rating that results in a number of 'stars'.
Some ideas for those categories:
- availability of documentation (nothing/NDA restricted == 0, NDA but free to publish code == 3, online with click through == 7, public URL == 10)
- vendor participation in the coreboot project
- ...
