Martin Roth wrote:
Eh, it's code... It's going to have issues and bugs.
I disagree with that attitude. A platform vendor writing platform init code doesn't really have a valid excuse for producing buggy code.
"Release early, release often" can't be an excuse to push the consequences of one's own shortcomings onto others. That's just poor programmer's moral.
I obviously disagree with letting shortcomings in other code generate issues in coreboot.
We're all interested in getting these things to the highest quality,
It doesn't seem to me that Intel is interested in that at all.
They're making themselves the only actor in the world capable of producing correct platform init code for their platforms, yet they don't. My guess as to why is that time to market is quite short.
They're still actively developing the code and working to improve things, so in that way it's definitely better than getting a single source code drop that never gets updated again.
That's a joke, right?
Source code without updates is clearly better than no source code.
Maybe I'm getting too old to waste my life on closed source nonsense?
//Peter