[coreboot] Chromium Upstreaming / Introduction

[Isaac]

> Do you plan to upstream all Chromebook coreboot and libpayload 
> branches from Chromium git, or just the individual patches Sage finds 
> useful and necessary for the boards You currently work on? 
The goal of this effort is to minimize the differences between the 
Chromium chromeos-2013.04 branch and the coreboot master branch. As part 
of this any outstanding patches or differences between the branches will 
be addressed.

> Do we expect the original authors to review the rebased, possibly
> modified work, or is the plan these patches just get rubberstamped as +2
> by a 3rd party once they build cleanly?

Original authors are automatically added as reviewers if they have coreboot.org gerrit accounts. I try to get approval from the original authors, but they are not always available for comment. If they are not available and the patch is non-trivial, we look for someone else familiar with the area or the original author of the section for review.  We would like to avoid too many rubber stamp reviews.

> Did you develop some nice method to keep track of which branches from
> Chromium we can consider as completely upstreamed?
This hasn't been a problem yet since we are only focusing on the 
chromeos-2013.04 branch at this time. If you know of a good solution for 
this I would appreciate any information.

> Do you have the facilities to do regular board-status script runs for
> recent Chromebooks?
Not at this time but we're coordinating with Google on this.

Isaac