There has been some talk recently in a smaller group where coreboot needs to improve the most in public perception, and how to get there.

Consensus has been that we're doing a pretty bad job at promoting all the hardware that we support in each coreboot version.

There's board-status which I started _years_ ago in the hope that somebody picks up the slack, but everybody has been busy, myself included. By now the collected information of the last 7.5 years is compiled into a 12MB HTML file that takes ages to render on moderate hardware (beware: https://www.coreboot.org/status/board-status.html), and the process to collect that data is mostly manual using pretty poor tooling. (Most of the links on that page don't even work anymore (which I'll fix) due to gitweb/cgit/gitiles changes on review.coreboot.org (and I only noticed by chance now).)

Meanwhile, there are several parties that boot test the hardware they care about regularly, with (often internal) information about how well coreboot does there.

We can't expect all those existing systems to converge into a single testing framework, but we could make it a single test result reporting framework.

To this end, I invite people interested in that topic to chime in on this email thread so that we can discuss what we could do to provide a common place with information about which coreboot versions are bootable on which boards in a way that makes sense for everybody: users who are interested in such data as well as testers that already collect it but have no way to publish it.

Thanks,

Patrick