[coreboot] Proposal: Removing obsolete & EOL boards and chipsets for 4.2 release

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Wed Oct 28 17:11:14 CET 2015


* Aaron Durbin <adurbin at google.com> [151028 14:52]:
> > Various improvements and important bug fixes, that will be introduced to a
> > master branch and affect all the coreboot boards, will not be automatically
> > applied to that separate AMD branch. Those coreboot developers which have
> > AMD boards and want to constantly use and test latest and greatest coreboot
> > builds, they will have to constantly check the coreboot commit log and
> > backport all these improvements and fixes to their separate (and soon to be
> > abandoned) AMD branch. That will be adding lots of unnecessary manual work
> > and draining lots of workhours, which otherwise could have been spent on
> > writing the bug reports or improving a coreboot code which is common for all
> > the coreboot-supported boards.
> 
> Those developers should then take a more active role in improving the
> code that is applicable to them. As it stands now, I don't see any
> work going in improving those code bases.

And there I am, waiting for people to review my AMD64 cleanup patches
since July ;-) hint hint. 

Stefan




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