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On 11/06/2015 04:11 AM, Vladimir wrote:
While the possibility of AMD AGESA boards 'removal' is being discussed, I would like to tell you about Lenovo G505S - which has Compal LA-A091P AMD Family 15h RL AGESA board.
- Did you know that Lenovo G505S is still widely available at some parts
of the world? (e.g. in Russia, 50+ online shops are still selling it)
- Did you know that Francis Rowe, head Libreboot developer, has proposed
the addition of G505S to Coreboot LTS Candidates list of laptops?
- Did you know that Compal will still be making LA-A091P laptop
motherboard, the primary component of G505S, at least until the end of 2018 year? (although these would be meant for Lenovo technical repair workshops, any person will be able to buy them by request even at 1pcs quantities)
It is unbelievable that some people here want to take alive-and-kicking motherboard and 'remove it': either 'remove' a support for it completely, or degrade it into a 'second class citizen' - by branching it off to some abandoned branch that nobody would care about. Don't know which is worse...
Slightly off topic, but if the Lenovo G505S uses a Family 15h processor it should be possible to port it over to native initialisation (thus ensuring it's continued existence as a first class citizen, even if this discussion comes up again eventually).
I was also unaware that true Family 15h CPUs had made their way into laptops; do you know if that particular device requires a PSP blob or not?
One last comment regarding removal. At minimum I would expect that none of the boards, chipsets, or CPUs shown in the board status repository from at least the past few months should be candidates for removal. As you can see K8 is definitely listed: http://review.coreboot.org/gitweb?p=board-status.git;a=summary
Thanks!
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Vladimir