-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/27/2015 03:10 PM, Vladimir wrote: > It would be really wrong to remove the whole AGESA code: there are > AMD-based products which are still very alive and actively sold (at the > developing markets) Moving the support for these products to a separate > coreboot branch, could create many inconveniences for those AMD product > owners who would like to test & use the latest and greatest coreboot > build: they will have to backport all the commits of code that's used by > all the boards, to that separate abandoned branch - which would cause a > lot of hassle and would basically cut them off from the development > > I agree that removing could be done to some 2009 VIA-based EOL boards > that nobody cares about, but it would be a mistake to do that to all the > AMD products, some of which are still produced to this date and used > together with coreboot by lots of people from this mailing list > > Also, that action will send a bad signal to AMD. AMD is actively > supporting the coreboot project and is much more friendly to open source > community than Intel with it's ME and creepy lock-it-all desires. > Removing AGESA code would be an equivalent of telling "we don't need > your code" to AMD, one of the largest coreboot supporters, and that > could lead to a terrible consequences
AMD is hardly innocent on that front; they require a large binary blob to execute on the auxiliary CPU at bootup, with unknown security consequences. Also, as far as I understand there has been no new AGESA source release for some time, only binary blobs. - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) http://www.raptorengineeringinc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWL9tLAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFbGXEH/Ar/eErlZp8biCEOO3EUKXN3 CXpvDMgjsWf8k0jmlW25ythzyEuD1fLsVhD84GvvO0anwMhT66IXtHVAyXUegd7T +iJd1MmthsSJRNW8xLhu9r+YEZInLAlq56HZ7ebnwbVmeokRhUdfCKUkUshPOO0N 73v5Q7SLQbhR8NwWzDF9jYF/DJyqfkgO1boBxDDGeV5XPzy5Ho+fwPFrH+E47nes 4u1uNxu8MYQvDoQzxIc/HE9scAhl79kuk3GUuiuoe6RlreKPlrFQVK0Rb+yIe/n+ 63mz53ZLdHCoglQLiGpMYlrQDSgzwvHH7i+lfavacgctJd7+Q0n5MFh9TppN4Uc= =G6dr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
