[coreboot] Re: Deprecation of the Intel Quark SoC for removal in 4.19

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Felix,

Am 31.03.22 um 22:55 schrieb Felix Singer:
> to me it seems like the Intel Quark SoC has been unmaintained and
> unused for a long time now.

Can you be more specific please?
> So I'm proposing to deprecate the support
> for it with coreboot release 4.17 [1], in order to drop the support
> with release 4.19 so that the community has less maintenance overhead.
>
> Does anyone use this platform? Any opinions against this?

It’s my understanding, up to now missing maintainership and unknown 
working status were no reasons for deprecation/removal. It was more, 
that it’s too difficult to move the chipset/SOC to newer code 
infrastructure(?) or coreboot features, because of the quality of the 
code. Can you please give these examples?

Kind regards,

Paul
> [1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/63283