On 20.08.2008 02:26, Ward Vandewege wrote: > http://www.coreboot.org/Rating_System > > The idea is that boards get a 'Vendor Cooperation Score' from zero to five > 'hares', based on how easy the vendor makes it for us to port coreboot to a > board. We want to reward good vendor behavior, rather than punish less > desirable behavior. Board vendors should strive to get more hares for their > products :) >
Indeed. > I think the rating system needs more thought, and I'd be grateful for anyone > who wants to help. > > In particular I'd like to see the 'Example and support code' section fleshed > out a bit more; some examples of code like that and/or vendors doing the > right thing would be great. I'm a little fuzzy as to what kind of code this > is. > New point: "Provides example code via e-mail, no NDA/license agreement required" should be equivalent to web page with click-through license or better. "Code is freely available under a free software license. It can be downloaded on the web after agreeing to a click-through license." What happens if the click-through license is the GPL? > Also, the score is heavily skewed towards documentation right now (80 out of > 124 points). I think that is fine but others may think otherwise. > > I just made up the hackability scores - do they make sense to people? Should > a JTAG header be rewarded higher than it is? > IIRC for some processors a JTAG header is simply not an option. > I've added a 'Vendor Cooperation Score' column on the supported motherboards > page (for v3, if there is no objection I'll add it for v2 too). > > I also made a sample rating page for the PC Engines Alix.1C > > http://www.coreboot.org/PC_Engines_ALIX.1C_Vendor_Cooperation_Score > > It would be nice to see rating pages for other boards - the Artec Group > boards should score better than the Alix.1C, for instance. > > Feedback very welcome. And feel free to edit away on the wiki, of course. > Nice. Thanks for working on this. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
