[coreboot] Proposal: Removing obsolete & EOL boards and chipsets for 4.2 release

Timothy Pearson tpearson at raptorengineeringinc.com
Tue Oct 27 21:15:09 CET 2015


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On 10/27/2015 03:10 PM, Vladimir wrote:
> It would be really wrong to remove the whole AGESA code: there are
> AMD-based products which are still very alive and actively sold (at the
> developing markets) Moving the support for these products to a separate
> coreboot branch, could create many inconveniences for those AMD product
> owners who would like to test & use the latest and greatest coreboot
> build: they will have to backport all the commits of code that's used by
> all the boards, to that separate abandoned branch - which would cause a
> lot of hassle and would basically cut them off from the development
> 
> I agree that removing could be done to some 2009 VIA-based EOL boards
> that nobody cares about, but it would be a mistake to do that to all the
> AMD products, some of which are still produced to this date and used
> together with coreboot by lots of people from this mailing list
> 
> Also, that action will send a bad signal to AMD. AMD is actively
> supporting the coreboot project and is much more friendly to open source
> community than Intel with it's ME and creepy lock-it-all desires.
> Removing AGESA code would be an equivalent of telling "we don't need
> your code" to AMD, one of the largest coreboot supporters, and that
> could lead to a terrible consequences

AMD is hardly innocent on that front; they require a large binary blob
to execute on the auxiliary CPU at bootup, with unknown security
consequences.  Also, as far as I understand there has been no new AGESA
source release for some time, only binary blobs.

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Timothy Pearson
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