My *complete* apologies!
Peter, I absolutely read Mariusz's email the wrong way and I'm sorry for any confusion or consternation towards Intel this may have caused!
I would however say that they *are* accepting responsibility for activity in the firmware community by asking me to step into the role of maintainer for Denverton coreboot. I'm a former BIOS engineer at Intel, and did work closely with ADI Engineering (now Silicom Ltd) during the initial bring-up of Denverton on their platforms. I believe they feel they are putting the maintenance role in good hands with me. What I meant to convey is (as Mariusz has clarified) that there is are resource constraints (with everyone of course) and as Intel continues to push the boundaries of technology they need to move engineers into roles that will allow them to continue to push those boundaries in the most cost-effective and impactful way. Denverton is a mature product, and Intel always has a support plan in place for their products until they are EOL'd (which Denverton definitely is not AFAICT in danger of any time soon). I believe that this rearrangement in their support model is part of that (but I don't speak for Intel of course). Intel continues to support inclusion of support for Denverton in coreboot, but there will be a shift in day to day maintenance is all rather than the maintenance being completely internal.
By 'moving away' I didn't intend to imply 'drop'. If that's how my comment was taken, for that I sincerely apologize.
-----Original Message----- From: Szafranski, MariuszX mariuszx.szafranski@intel.com Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 4:49 AM To: Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se; coreboot@coreboot.org; Jeff Daly jeffd@silicom-usa.com Subject: RE: [coreboot] Re: Gerrit shows a Merge Conflict (was: Re: Denverton-NS refactoring)
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Hi,
To clarify situation (Jeff - looks like you got wrong my last email 😉 )
DNV will still be supported by Intel. Vanessa will continue to be primary support contact from Intel side. One thing that will change in next few months is that I and Suresh will move to another project and will have limited time to maintain DNV/HCV code. But we still be around 😉. So that’s main reason to propose Jeff as main maintainer for DNV/HCV.
Mariusz
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 2:17 PM To: coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: [coreboot] Re: Gerrit shows a Merge Conflict (was: Re: Denverton-NS refactoring)
Thank you for your updates, Jeff.
Jeff Daly wrote:
the feedback I got from Intel is that they will be moving away from internal support for DNV coreboot.
It's sad and telling to see one of the most ambitious technology companies in the world, one that routinely pushed technology limits, choose to not continue to accept responsibility and be active in our firmware community.
Value is never inherent, it's what we choose to create.
Kind regards
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