[coreboot] Official builds for EoL Chromebooks

[John Lewis]

On 13/10/16 20:45, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote:
> > John Lewis has some upstream firmware for the older
> SandyBridge/IvyBridge models,
> > but his Haswell firmware is build from Google's tree/branches not
> upstream.
> > He also has no plans for any future upstream firmware.
>
> Once upon a time when John worked for SAGE Electronics. I remember
> this time, about 3 and more years ago. ;-)
>
I never worked for Sage.
> SAGE was the first company (FSP echo system partner) to accept and
> adopt INTEL FSP (midst of 2013, IVB was the first child). Since then,
> lot of things have changed. Lot of... SAGE is not anymore in this
> business, and, and... .. . (you all fill in the dots). :-)
>
> Zoran
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Matt DeVillier
> <matt.devillier at gmail.com <mailto:matt.devillier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Emi,
>
>     I think this is what you're looking
>     for: https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
>     <https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards>
>     It contains the commit hash, build config, and a few other logs
>     for each device/commit.  It is user submitted though, since there
>     doesn't exist a test setup for every supported device.
>
>     Right now, I'm the main builder/distributor of upstream coreboot
>     firmware for ChromeOS devices; I support all Haswell, Broadwell,
>     and some Baytrail devices, the former with both UEFI and Legacy
>     Boot variants. When time permits, I'll expand that to cover the
>     rest of the Baytrail devices, then move on to adding support for
>     Skylake.  No plans for Braswell support unless I acquire a device
>     on which to test.
>
>     John Lewis has some upstream firmware for the older
>     SandyBridge/IvyBridge models, but his Haswell firmware is build
>     from Google's tree/branches not upstream.  He also has no plans
>     for any future upstream firmware.
>
>     cheers,
>     Matt
>
>     On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Emilian Bold
>     <emilian.bold at gmail.com <mailto:emilian.bold at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         Now that Coreboot has reproducible builds, could you provide a
>         list of build hashes for Chromebooks that are or will soon
>         reach End of Life?
>
>         I see
>         on https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en
>         <https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en> that
>         2 Chromebooks will reach End of Life in 2016 and 3 more in
>         2017 then 7 in 2018. I assume the number will increase each year.
>
>         I know that Coreboot does not distribute builds, but the
>         little Custom roms section
>         on https://www.coreboot.org/users.html
>         <https://www.coreboot.org/users.html> seems insufficient.
>
>         It's easy making a build, you just need to have the certainty
>         you did it well. Or that the one you are downloading is correct.
>
>         Posting an official SHA-256 hash for a ROM would solve this.
>
>         --emi
>
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