* Martin Roth via coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org [171005 19:00]:
I've got very mixed feelings about pushing the changes that we know aren't going to work, especially right before we abandon the boards to a branch.
We are not abandoning any boards. The whole reason we are doing branches and not tags is that boards can be fixed on older branches after they are no longer part of ToT.
Part of keeping coreboot flexible and fresh is to reduce the amount of boards one has to consider for any given change. Trying to keep boards forever was great when we had 30 boards in the tree, and Ron had all of them. These days we add 30 boards per year or more, and 10yr old silicon does not bring a whole lot to the table for making the latest and greatest coreboot better. If it makes the code much worse and nobody maintains it, it should live in a branch. Where it also does not further decay without testing, so it really is a win win situation both for old and new boards.
Stefan