[coreboot] Official builds for EoL Chromebooks

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

Hello John,

I'll investigate this in depth... Somehow, I remember, you were
connected with them (anyhow - as free lancer, or in different way),
aren't you? ;-)

Maybe I am just too old dummy cat, and I mix virtual realities...
Everything is possible! I admit.

Thank you,
Zoran

On 10/15/16, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie> wrote:
> 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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