Actually, this sounds pretty good. When the X99 boards come out, I would actually be interested in "sponsoring" a dev to adopt an X99 mainboard for Coreboot. I would even be willing to have a discussion about various X99 boards, in order to adopt one with the broadest overall interest.
Gary On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Stefan Reinauer < [email protected]> wrote: > coreboot for the 21st century > > setting up the project for the next decade > > Purpose: Purge all boards / chipsets / cpus that require ROMCC in > romstage and known broken chipsets (sc520, i855) > > coreboot is now officially 15 years old. One and a half long decades > with ups and downs. During this time we collected over 250 different > mainboards. A great achievement, but also a great maintenance burden. > > * It is hard to keep 250+ mainboards working. Actually impossible. > * Keeping them working comes at a cost. Keep old infrastructure around. > Workarounds, special cases > * We don't test except on the very last stuff we're working on > > To fix this issue, we suggest to establish a process to obsolete old > hardware in a controlled way. Getting rid of old baggage is great and > liberating for future products, but it is also one of the moves the > strictly hobbyist community considers corporate driven. Hence, we want > to satisfy both a speedy light-weight development process and keeping > all the good coreboot legacy alive. > > For the first time in 2014, and every few years after that (e.g. every > two years), we will create a new "community branch" that focusses on > older mainboards. This branch will start out as an exact copy of ToT > coreboot. Suggested name: "coreboot-community-2014" or "coreboot-v4.0". > Then this branch will not get any further new feature development (of > features not available in ToT) but only bug fixes for boards to get them > working and potentially backports. > > After the branch is created, all obsoleted mainboards are removed from > the main repository. The version will be coreboot 4.1. Cleanup shall > begin to remove all the cruft that we had around to get those old boards > working. Each mainboard in v4.1 will have a supporter / owner. New > mainboards are not admitted into V4.1 without a supporter / owner. > > If somebody in the community wants to keep a board / chipset alive in > the tree, they can re-import them by cleaning up the board to work with > the new, cruft free infrastructure. > > In 2016 we will do the same thing again, and it will become coreboot 6.0 > > Appendix A: romcc boards to be removed > > advantech/pcm-5820 > asi/mb_5blgp > asi/mb_5blmp > axus/tc320 > bcom/winnet100 > bifferos/bifferboard > digitallogic/msm586seg > dmp/vortex86ex > eaglelion/5bcm > iei/juki-511p > iei/nova4899r > intel/jarrell > intel/truxton > intel/xe7501devkit > supermicro/x6dai_g > supermicro/x6dhe_g2 > supermicro/x6dhe_g > supermicro/x6dhr_ig2 > supermicro/x6dhr_ig > technologic/ts5300 > televideo/tc7020 > via/epia > via/epia-m > via/epia-n > > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
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