Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBoot] Move LinuxBoot mailing list to Mailman

[ron minnich]

at the moment, nobody wanted to move it, since it's working for all of us.
We're all short of time. Sorry.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:24 AM Paul Menzel <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Dear Ron,
>
> Am Montag, den 04.12.2017, 15:58 +0000 schrieb ron minnich:
> > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:37 AM Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > I can’t find the mailing list. Could you please share the URL (and put
> > > the list in CC)?
> >
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linuxboot
>
> Strange, that it wasn’t found. But *linuxboot* consists of two keywords
>   used in different contexts too.
> > I sent an invite to you, Paul!
>
> Thank you I got that, and subscribed.
>
> I do not know, if Google Groups changed, but in the past, I always had
> a lot of problems to subscribe and manage such a subscription without a
> Google account. I just tried it again, and I do not even find a
> subscribe button.
>
> So, as it’s still early, I’d really welcome it, if you decided to move
> to Mailman. Would that be possible?
> > > Regarding the content of LinuxBoot [1], it will mostly then be
> > > documenting stuff, how LinuxBoot can be achieved?
> >
> > We're not sure. UEFI is so complex, and there are so many vendors writing
> > bad code for it, that at least part of this work involves "figure out
>
> what
> > a mess the ODM made of UEFI and work around it."
> >
> > Trammell had a very interesting post just today, concerning how Boot
>
> Device
> > Selection does all sort of things unrelated to Boot Device Selection --
>
> on
> > an Intel board, of course.
> >
> > The purpose of the group: "Welcome to the LinuxBoot mailing list, wherein
> > we discuss using a Linux kernel as the ramstage (coreboot) or
> > DxeCore/BdsExe/UEFISHell replacement."
>
> s/SHell/Shell/
>
> Though I got:
> > Generic list for the LinuxBoot firmware, not tied to any specific project
> > (coreboot, NERF, Heads, etc).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul