[coreboot] board-status "binary"

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 17:32:42 CET 2014


On 22.11.2014 17:28, John Lewis wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/11/14 15:55, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> On 22.11.2014 12:22, John Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21/11/14 21:58, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>>>> On 14.11.2014 12:44, John Lewis wrote:
>>>>> Hey y'all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've modified the board-status script to have as few external
>>>>> dependencies as possible, be a self-extracting, self-running "binary".
>>>>> and removed the time-stamp to keep the number initial commits down.
>>>>> Feel
>>>>> free to tell me how bad it is and how it murdered your children. :P
>>>>>
>>>> Never send binaries to the list.
>>>
>>> A link could be just as malicious. What way should I do it?
>>>
>> A link would be fine. It wouldn't make everybody uninterested in this
>> topic but subscribed to the list download 1M file.
> 
> I understand what you mean now - people perhaps stuck on low-bandwidth
> links with expensive data plans.
> 
>>>> And about the idea: current code needs git tree. I tried to make
>>>> changes
>>>> to make it possible to have board-status without git tree.
>>>>
>>>> Result: those change were ignored, bikeshed or vetoed.
>>>>
>>>> Long story short: nobody cares.
>>>
>>> At some point Ron did care, otherwise we wouldn't have been talking
>>> about it, and I certainly do. I can tell you anecdotally which
>>> Chromebooks are being used and should remain live in the code-base
>>> (hint: all of them) but I thought we were trying to be more scientific
>>> about it than that.
>>>
>> Speaking is about where it usually stops. It's been very disappointing.
>> Usual scenario is that we get lots of discussion to do sth, everybody is
>> dissatisfied with current status and when I spend huge chunk of my
>> personal time to fix it, nobody is there to even review the patches.
>> That's understandable: otherwise what will we speak about next time if
>> the issue is solved? Still it's disappointing and I have better things
>> to do with my personal time than making patches nobody cares about.
>> The top of rename stack is at 7185. It's automated test and Stefan
>> agreed to it in principle in Prague, yet it's sitting there for already
>> 3 weeks.
> 
> Okay, well the binary as is will upload stuff to the current
> board-status repo, so maybe that's enough. I'm trying to encourage
> people to use it. We'll see if we can get maybe a few hundred people to
> upload something, given time.
> 
Determining of mainboard is wrong for clones. I was trying to fix this a
while ago but I stopped carying.
>>>>> John.
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