Hello Patrick,
I'm a bit concerned about the tone of your email. Maybe you were just reflecting the meeting literally. In that case, sorry in advance.
In several spots you seem to imply that Peter would settle for less than what is expected. I have no idea where that comes from. Also, I don't remember a list of requirements when the vboot dependency was introduced.
The vboot dependency has been a PITA for a while. I'll happily accept patches that make it less of a pain even if that means a little more maintenance effort. I'd even accept a local hash implementation. Some- where the argument was made that it would be bad to have additional implementations. But I wonder, if that were a policy, would vboot have such implementations? I'm sure they weren't the first. Maybe there were even concerns about external code?
Nico