To further clean things up, starting with the 4.8 release, any platform thatThere should be an easier way for people to test stuff, I myself haven't bothered to do it yet as you need an openid, then a gerrit account
does not have a successful boot logged in the board_status repo in the previous
year (that is, within the previous two releases) will be removed from the
maintained coreboot codebase. Chips that do not have any associated boards will
also be removed. These platforms will be announced before the release so that
there is time for people to test if desired.
This is not meant to be a high bar, but as a measure to clean up the codebase
and eliminate boards and chips that are actually no longer being used. The
cleanup will happen just after the release, so the removed platforms will still
be available in the release branch if desired. If there is still interest,
developers can bring back old chips and boards by porting them to the new tree
(and bringing them to current standards).
, then you need to run a program on the device itself (which is difficult if you are using it as a router/firewall such as on my AM1ML)
If it was a more automated process
where an account isn't needed that would encourage more people to do it.
Studies indicate that e-commerce websites that require people to create an account to buy something have a much lower sales conversion rate.