Good day folks,
In a recent change[0], it was proposed that we drop support for the Intel Ice Lake platform. The only mainboard supporting the platform was the Intel RVP, but as far as anyone knows, it appears the project never progressed past the initial silicon, and so the code is now unmaintained and also unused. Since Ice Lake is very similar to TGL & ADL, it poses a maintenance burden when dealing with Intel common code e.g., anything in src/soc/intel/common.
According to [1], this should be announced in upcoming release notes first, and removal could happen in 6 months.
Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why we should keep it around, otherwise let's update the upcoming release notes to give the "official" notice that it will be dropped.
Cheers, - Tim
[0]https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/60053 [1]https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/templates.html
This didn't get any discussion when it was initially posted, so I want to make sure there are no objections.
I'll post the notice of the removal in the 4.17 release notes unless there's a reason to keep Ice Lake code around. This will be removed from the master branch after the 4.19 release.
Martin
Jan 4, 2022, 12:33 by coreboot@coreboot.org:
Good day folks,
In a recent change[0], it was proposed that we drop support for the Intel Ice Lake platform. The only mainboard supporting the platform was the Intel RVP, but as far as anyone knows, it appears the project never progressed past the initial silicon, and so the code is now unmaintained and also unused. Since Ice Lake is very similar to TGL & ADL, it poses a maintenance burden when dealing with Intel common code e.g., anything in src/soc/intel/common.
According to [1], this should be announced in upcoming release notes first, and removal could happen in 6 months.
Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why we should keep it around, otherwise let's update the upcoming release notes to give the "official" notice that it will be dropped. Cheers, - Tim
[0]> https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/60053 [1]> https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/templates.html
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