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

[David Hendricks]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Timothy Pearson <
tpearson at raptorengineeringinc.com> wrote:

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> On 10/27/2015 03:36 PM, Vladimir wrote:
> > Although I agree with you that AMD is not innocent as well, if you would
> > check a "Binary situation" page at coreboot's wiki, you would see that
> > Intel is in three times more evil (still could not understand why some
> > incredibly talented coreboot developers are spending so much time
> > fighting Intel's ME issues, while AMD boards don't have that "dragon you
> > have to tame" on board)
> >
> > In any case, it would be very sad to see the AMD code gone from the
> > master branch. Even the code for some unpopular boards like Intel
> > Atom-based EOL "Mohron Peak" was allowed to stay! Why AMD boards are
> > considered worse? The sole idea of AMD code going away, which will
> > affect many alive-and-kicking coreboot-supported AMD boards, is beyond
> > my comprehension
>
> This is why I was advocating a gentle demotion to second class status.
> You can still use the AGESA code where needed, but native intialization
> would be preferred for new ports.
>

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I think I had a knee-jerk reaction since
the idea of ripping out AGESA entirely has been floated in the past. This
seems like a decent approach.


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David Hendricks (dhendrix)
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