[coreboot] [announce] coreboot for the 21st century

[gary sheppard]

Actually, this sounds pretty good. When the X99 boards come out, I would
actually be interested in "sponsoring" a dev to adopt an X99 mainboard for
Coreboot. I would even be willing to have a discussion about various X99
boards, in order to adopt one with the broadest overall interest.

Gary


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Stefan Reinauer <
stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org> wrote:

> coreboot for the 21st century
>
> setting up the project for the next decade
>
> Purpose: Purge all boards / chipsets / cpus that require ROMCC in
> romstage and known broken chipsets (sc520, i855)
>
> coreboot is now officially 15 years old. One and a half long decades
> with ups and downs. During this time we collected over 250 different
> mainboards. A great achievement, but also a great maintenance burden.
>
> * It is hard to keep 250+ mainboards working. Actually impossible.
> * Keeping them working comes at a cost. Keep old infrastructure around.
>   Workarounds, special cases
> * We don't test except on the very last stuff we're working on
>
> To fix this issue, we suggest to establish a process to obsolete old
> hardware in a controlled way. Getting rid of old baggage is great and
> liberating for future products, but it is also one of the moves the
> strictly hobbyist community considers corporate driven. Hence, we want
> to satisfy both a speedy light-weight development process and keeping
> all the good coreboot legacy alive.
>
> For the first time in 2014, and every few years after that (e.g. every
> two years), we will create a new "community branch" that focusses on
> older mainboards. This branch will start out as an exact copy of ToT
> coreboot. Suggested name: "coreboot-community-2014" or "coreboot-v4.0".
> Then this branch will not get any further new feature development (of
> features not available in ToT) but only bug fixes for boards to get them
> working and potentially backports.
>
> After the branch is created, all obsoleted mainboards are removed from
> the main repository. The version will be coreboot 4.1. Cleanup shall
> begin to remove all the cruft that we had around to get those old boards
> working. Each mainboard in v4.1 will have a supporter / owner. New
> mainboards are not admitted into V4.1 without a supporter / owner.
>
> If somebody in the community wants to keep a board / chipset alive in
> the tree, they can re-import them by cleaning up the board to work with
> the new, cruft free infrastructure.
>
> In 2016 we will do the same thing again, and it will become coreboot 6.0
>
> Appendix A: romcc boards to be removed
>
>   advantech/pcm-5820
>   asi/mb_5blgp
>   asi/mb_5blmp
>   axus/tc320
>   bcom/winnet100
>   bifferos/bifferboard
>   digitallogic/msm586seg
>   dmp/vortex86ex
>   eaglelion/5bcm
>   iei/juki-511p
>   iei/nova4899r
>   intel/jarrell
>   intel/truxton
>   intel/xe7501devkit
>   supermicro/x6dai_g
>   supermicro/x6dhe_g2
>   supermicro/x6dhe_g
>   supermicro/x6dhr_ig2
>   supermicro/x6dhr_ig
>   technologic/ts5300
>   televideo/tc7020
>   via/epia
>   via/epia-m
>   via/epia-n
>
>
>
>
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