There is essentially no interest for new board ports on AGESA/binaryPI, these platforms have mostly survived in the tree due to commercial support to maintain them.
This seems to be untrue when boards like the Asus AM1I-A were ported as recently as last year. [1] It's a AMD family 16h board that looks like it calls into binaryPI based AGESA a number of times, judging by the boot logs on the wiki. [2]
I plan on using this board myself for a small NAS system.
-Matt
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ASUS-AM1I-A-Coreboot https://source.puri.sm/coreboot/coreboot/commit/3dce9f09d9e26b147153ad0cda49... https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/commits/master/src/mainboard/asus/am1i-... [2] https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/am1i-a
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 4:00 AM Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:12 AM Nico Huber nico.h@gmx.de wrote:
On 12.09.19 18:42, Patrick Georgi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:20:49PM +0300, Kyösti Mälkki wrote:
Would "some people" or these "advocates" be willing to elaborate?
I CC'd Nico and Martin because I seem to remember that we talked about AGESA (and its quality and/or life cycle). Nico, for example, seems to advocate scrapping AGESA to replace it with a rewrite ;-)
Ah, yes. I might have said something. When talking about AGESA ports, I most probably meant the hook-up in coreboot, not the vendorcode/. I usually don't look at the latter.
I would love to see a clean rewrite and assume that I proposed this when somebody asked what could/should be done. However, I don't see it as a requirement. Also, we have much more worrisome code in the tree (e.g. KGPE-D16 and surrounding code, suffering from undefined behavior, #including of .c files etc.).
Nico
Interesting. In terms of lines of code, probably 75% of AGESA glue logic in ports has already been removed. But I agree, aside from release requirements, there is lots left that could be done. There is essentially no interest for new board ports on AGESA/binaryPI, these platforms have mostly survived in the tree due to commercial support to maintain them.
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