[flashrom] Future flashrom development (Stefan's PoV I)

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at gmx.at
Mon Oct 23 09:56:42 CEST 2017


On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:14:04 -0700
David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the detailed write-up. I suppose there's another part coming so
> I don't want to get too deep into discussion just yet, but one part in
> particular caught my eye:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > While there was a bunch of patches that have been piled up back then it
> > was less of a problem then the increasing divergence between the
> > chromiumos fork and upstream. Thus we have discussed ways to converge
> > that (by pulling changes mainly from upstream into chromium but also
> > vice versa) and also increase the pace of merging stuff into upstream
> > later. This was still with no intention to switch to git because of
> > Carl-Daniel's concerns.
> >  
> 
> I'm surprised that you think that chromiumos's divergence is a *worse*
> problem than the huge backlog of upstream patches. The chromiumos fork is
> self-contained, has its own review system, its own testing, and is targeted
> at a narrow set of devices. I don't understand how it could have been a
> problem for upstream and would be interested if you can elaborate on this
> point.

No *is* but *was*. This was (explicitly) describing my view/conception
in 2014. Back then there was way more progress upstream and less
backlog of big patches. It was actually you who brought up the topic in
that meeting IIRC. The problem as I understood it then was that the
overhead of picking upstream patches for the chromiumos was perceived
as getting out of hand. Likewise it was a petty to backport interesting
things back (support for new intel boards, which were taken by me from
chromiumos multiple times IIRC).

> 
> FWIW I did try pushing some features from chromiumos to upstream, but like
> other patches they never really got anywhere. I also tried working with
> Carl-Daniel for a couple months to sync the trees, but that effort didn't
> get very far.

I am not sure how you tried to get them in but I don't see any open
threads regarding any (big) patches by you on the ML... However there
were a big number of changes that were forward ported to chromium by
you back then and more recently Patrick.

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner



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