I swear I heard "removed from the tree" somewhere - irregardless only unobtainable closed-source development boards will benefit from new coreboot features.On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Taiidan@gmx.com <Taiidan@gmx.com> wrote:Like I have said before these types of policies are eventually going to result in coreboot only having unobtainable development boards in the tree (that are of course not owner controlled) It simply isn't right.Indeed, this isn't right (as in correct) so don't spread this FUD. The boards are still in the tree, you just need to check out whatever coreboot version is known to actually work with the board. For example if a board was last reported working in coreboot-4.6, then `git checkout 4.6` or checkout a specific hash reported on the board_status repo.
I am not complaining because some random boards from 2005 that no one uses are being removed - this is because the last owner controlled x86_64 boards will eventually be functionally removed (and would have been if no one had submitted status for the D8).It does no good for users to have hundreds of boards in master that fail to boot, and no good for developers who need to maintain and refactor code for boards that nobody tests and have been abandoned.
Even if I didn't use mine for something important I am unable to submit results because I refuse to provide my "real" name and am too honest to use a fake name.There's obviously a few people on this list using the Asus boards mentioned which is great. The issue we need to solve is getting more people to submit test results so that this isn't a problem in the future.