[flashrom] [PATCH] Fix all ASUS P5GD* board enables

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Sun Oct 23 00:05:09 CEST 2011


On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:38:21 +0200
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> adding tested board enable with exact matches for identified and
> tested boards and NT board enables for potentially compatible boards
> should be the scheme to be used in the future for all mainboard
> families instead of adding an uncertain generic board enable or none
> at all (just because the user does not reply). The policy should be
> to add board enables as soon as they become available or at least no
> longer than a week after posting it, even without success reports.
> 
> Rationale: This scheme guarantees that we get success reports for
> untested boards which allows us to combine them later when we are
> sure (enough). OTOH it allows users to easily test the yet
> unsupported boards without recompiling by forcing the generic board
> enables. And it keeps the patch queue short.
> 
> Investigating all of the above was certainly not worth it on its own
> and id suggest to avoid similar efforts in the future by following
> the scheme :)

this was way too much work to let it bit-rot and has a small impact
overall, so it was
Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>
and committed in r1457.
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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