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On 10/27/2015 03:10 PM, Vladimir wrote:
It would be really wrong to remove the whole AGESA code: there are AMD-based products which are still very alive and actively sold (at the developing markets) Moving the support for these products to a separate coreboot branch, could create many inconveniences for those AMD product owners who would like to test & use the latest and greatest coreboot build: they will have to backport all the commits of code that's used by all the boards, to that separate abandoned branch - which would cause a lot of hassle and would basically cut them off from the development
I agree that removing could be done to some 2009 VIA-based EOL boards that nobody cares about, but it would be a mistake to do that to all the AMD products, some of which are still produced to this date and used together with coreboot by lots of people from this mailing list
Also, that action will send a bad signal to AMD. AMD is actively supporting the coreboot project and is much more friendly to open source community than Intel with it's ME and creepy lock-it-all desires. Removing AGESA code would be an equivalent of telling "we don't need your code" to AMD, one of the largest coreboot supporters, and that could lead to a terrible consequences
AMD is hardly innocent on that front; they require a large binary blob to execute on the auxiliary CPU at bootup, with unknown security consequences. Also, as far as I understand there has been no new AGESA source release for some time, only binary blobs.
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