Michael Niewöhner wrote:
It feels this is the usual "but what if *someone* out there *needs/wants* it?".
Not quite, it's "why delete it if it might work?". This is still ideological of course, so the question becomes what we find valuable.
I e.g. do not consider it at all valuable to only keep code for the last n Intel platform generations, in spite of knowing that only those have any value whatsoever for the vast majority of coreboot users.
But coreboot is not a company and thus not restricted to only value market demand or otherwise proven utility. We can have other values and I do.
Does anyone know if the platform still works, at all?
Does anyone know that the platform *doesn't* work?
Are there any practical concerns whatsoever?
For me, at a very minimum both those questions must have a yes answer to qualify deletion.
Reducing scope is always satisfying but that's not a good reason to delete platforms.
It is of course very easy to manufacture practical concerns, but maybe that's a fair enough hurdle for arbitrary deletion...
//Peter