Re: [coreboot] Official builds for EoL Chromebooks

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

> John Lewis has some upstream firmware for the older SandyBridge/IvyBridge

models,
> but his Haswell firmware is build from Google's tree/branches not

upstream.
> He also has no plans for any future upstream firmware.

Once upon a time when John worked for SAGE Electronics. I remember this
time, about 3 and more years ago. ;-)

SAGE was the first company (FSP echo system partner) to accept and adopt
INTEL FSP (midst of 2013, IVB was the first child). Since then, lot of
things have changed. Lot of... SAGE is not anymore in this business, and,
and... .. . (you all fill in the dots). :-)

Zoran

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Matt DeVillier 
wrote:
> Emi,
>
> I think this is what you're looking for: https://www.coreboot.org/
> Supported_Motherboards
> It contains the commit hash, build config, and a few other logs for each
> device/commit.  It is user submitted though, since there doesn't exist a
> test setup for every supported device.
>
> Right now, I'm the main builder/distributor of upstream coreboot firmware
> for ChromeOS devices; I support all Haswell, Broadwell, and some Baytrail
> devices, the former with both UEFI and Legacy Boot variants. When time
> permits, I'll expand that to cover the rest of the Baytrail devices, then
> move on to adding support for Skylake.  No plans for Braswell support
> unless I acquire a device on which to test.
>
> John Lewis has some upstream firmware for the older SandyBridge/IvyBridge
> models, but his Haswell firmware is build from Google's tree/branches not
> upstream.  He also has no plans for any future upstream firmware.
>
> cheers,
> Matt
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Emilian Bold 
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Now that Coreboot has reproducible builds, could you provide a list of
> > build hashes for Chromebooks that are or will soon reach End of Life?
> >
> > I see on https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en that 2
> > Chromebooks will reach End of Life in 2016 and 3 more in 2017 then 7 in
> > 2018. I assume the number will increase each year.
> >
> > I know that Coreboot does not distribute builds, but the little Custom
> > roms section on https://www.coreboot.org/users.html seems insufficient.
> >
> > It's easy making a build, you just need to have the certainty you did it
> > well. Or that the one you are downloading is correct.
> >
> > Posting an official SHA-256 hash for a ROM would solve this.
> >
> > --emi