Let's table the discussion of agesa (and other) platform removal for now. As Patrick said in the 4.2 release announcement, a plan for the removal of code is being written and will be posted for discussion shortly.
Martin On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Timothy Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/03/2015 03:41 AM, Vladimir wrote: >> I strongly disagree with this branching "solution". Why? >> Because - if building all the targets is slow - then just don't build >> all the targets at once! If you need a fast build and you are not >> concerned about AMD boards - just because you don't have any - it is >> always possible to skip AGESA build without moving it to a branch and >> separating from the rest of the coreboot code . So this is seen as a >> really bad excuse >> >> Best regards, >> Vladimir Shipovalov > > I do agree technically with this, however there's no policy in place for > what happens when an AGESA build finally does fire and it's found the > related source broke some time ago. I think that's the main reason for > wanting to stuff AGESA in a branch; separation of maintainaince. > > One one hand, having recently been the victim of having some of my > native init patches fail Jenkins builds due to AGESA breakage, I'd > almost like to see this happen. On the other hand, I know exactly how > painful sync across branches can be, so I can't recommend it. > > - -- > 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/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWORHbAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFbfbgH/i5wk3vQrqtlAuCY0Jhdx2ML > ez0ugczbnHaRiQZAuf62oQn1A2oPWg25LFssokztv9MyaJ1p1JbYkt1sLLJL5Eoi > hHwm3Lr61oM4NWkHYIy8s1TiK2nIAWnw2gepulNePe9vlul0CiMFlqMon8FMoYCC > 6cONRC/09ElLElPRazp5JkoOJnqWTxWotKJqYUJwoxQ7ed2f0L6WB45KWFZSpz3W > PsO/WEX5TmsxiXLoV8q2W9NYizfNoDV/TIs89aKskcylxSCdj3DYWKYMudLAvglK > wpsfJWuy7WRw01Lp+Av6aPeF0rzU+pP/z9JhzewZWTBryjl9KJ2mQEI1MbjJwtE= > =3wXn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
