[coreboot] coreboot ported to the ASUS KGPE-D16 (Libreboot: blobless, fully functional!)

Timothy Pearson tpearson at raptorengineeringinc.com
Thu Apr 30 00:07:07 CEST 2015


On 04/29/2015 04:56 PM, The Gluglug wrote:
>
> What about simply pushing the code as-is (make your non-upstream tree
> publicly available for people to git-clone), and let the community
> upstream it in their own time?

There is no real incentive for Raptor to do this.  There is no guarantee 
of code actually being up-streamed and maintained by the community, but 
after this release our competitors may use the code at will.

To be clear, we use coreboot internally on a large server cluster.  This 
port is the result of an internal effort to upgrade said cluster, and 
while it is in our financial interest to upstream ports of older boards 
(e.g. the ASUS KFSN4-DRE) that did not require changes to the underlying 
support code, it is _not_ in our financial interest to simply release 
the code to modern boards that required major changes to underlying 
support code.

-- 
Timothy Pearson
Raptor Engineering
+1 (415) 727-8645
http://www.raptorengineeringinc.com



More information about the coreboot mailing list