Re: [coreboot] [URGENT] Full List of AMD-based boards that are going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

[Raphaël Jacquot]

On 28/04/2018 14:37, Mike Banon wrote:
> There are a lot of nice AMD-based coreboot-supported boards which have
> an outdated board_status and are at risk of removal. The majority of
> these boards (with the exception of PC engines apu2//3//4//5) - do not
> require a closed source AMD PSP binary to run, and ( also compared to
> many Intel boards which require Intel ME proprietary binary ) these
> AMD boards are highly user-controllable - some of them are even
> supported by the libreboot project!

according to https://www.pcengines.ch:
> PC Engines alix1c - AMD LX - 2017-09-17

replaced by Alix1e - eol
> PC Engines alix2d - AMD LX - 2017-09-17

still produced but not recommended for new designs
> PC Engines apu1 - AMD Family 14h (AGESA) - 2017-09-05

APU1D and APU1D4 in active prodution
> PC Engines apu2 // apu3 // apu4 // apu5 - AMD 00730F01 (PI) - 2017-10-26

this is the most recent system and actively produced

[URGENT] Full List of AMD-based boards that are going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

[Mike Banon]

Sadly these apu2//3//4//5 require a closed source AMD PSP binary to
run: less freedom for user, also - a possible remote control hardware
backdoor there, like Intel ME ! Thats why I prefer K8/10h/14h/15h/16h
- all the AMD architectures that are not PI / PSP. Even if the
manufacturer has declared some boards as EOL, its not that important:
many of these boards still have enough performance for the wide range
of tasks, and some people are still running coreboot even at K8
boards! ASROCK 939A785GMH/128M and ASUS M2V-MX SE had the board_status
reports at Nov/Dec 2017 - yes, a bit outdated, but still younger than
6 months - so these K8 boards are relatively safe (for now). Just hope
that the other coreboot owners of AMD boards would submit their
board_status reports, to avoid a situation when they return to us a
couple of months later only to find out that their board has been
removed and complain a lot

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Raphaël Jacquot  wrote:
> On 28/04/2018 14:37, Mike Banon wrote:
> > There are a lot of nice AMD-based coreboot-supported boards which have
> > an outdated board_status and are at risk of removal. The majority of
> > these boards (with the exception of PC engines apu2//3//4//5) - do not
> > require a closed source AMD PSP binary to run, and ( also compared to
> > many Intel boards which require Intel ME proprietary binary ) these
> > AMD boards are highly user-controllable - some of them are even
> > supported by the libreboot project!
>
> according to https://www.pcengines.ch:
> > PC Engines alix1c - AMD LX - 2017-09-17
>
> replaced by Alix1e - eol
> > PC Engines alix2d - AMD LX - 2017-09-17
>
> still produced but not recommended for new designs
> > PC Engines apu1 - AMD Family 14h (AGESA) - 2017-09-05
>
> APU1D and APU1D4 in active prodution
> > PC Engines apu2 // apu3 // apu4 // apu5 - AMD 00730F01 (PI) - 2017-10-26
>
> this is the most recent system and actively produced