[coreboot] Re: How to best handle new Intel Saphire Rapids server boards based on Intel Archer City?

2023-06-20 Thread Lean Sheng Tan
Thanks again everyone for chipping in, this was a pleasant discussion (a bit surprise to me TBH :D ) I agree with Nico and Ron, and also with Angel's suggestion. For now, we can let the MB code go in first, and if there is something in common we can always restructure it, like we used to before. Bu

[coreboot] Re: How to best handle new Intel Saphire Rapids server boards based on Intel Archer City?

2023-06-20 Thread David Hendricks
Thanks everyone for this great discussion. I looked at making Transformers a variant of Archer City CRB, but came to the conclusion that others foresaw which is that a multi-vendor variant model is not a good fit in this case. In this case the SOC support is new to the tree and we have boards deve

[coreboot] id.coreboot.org Keycloak server problems

2023-06-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, I just tried to log in to Gerrit with the link "Keycloak OAuth2 (gerrit-oauth-provider plugin) ", but the redirect to https://id.coreboot.org/... gets stuck during TLS negotiation. Firefo

[coreboot] Re: How to best handle new Intel Saphire Rapids server boards based on Intel Archer City?

2023-06-20 Thread Peter Stuge
(sorry if you receive this twice) David Hendricks wrote: > it will be easier to refactor portions of the code with the large > patches merged in a buildable and (hopefully) usable/testable state. That's pretty weak sauce and I think you all know deep down. Who pays for refactoring? Probably some

[coreboot] Re: How to best handle new Intel Saphire Rapids server boards based on Intel Archer City?

2023-06-20 Thread ron minnich
The approach in the last 24 years (of this unsustainable project :-) has been to get several mainboards of a type, and, once we have them, try to work out what code is truly common and what code is similar but not truly common. Code that is truly common can then be factored out into places such as

[coreboot] Re: How to best handle new Intel Saphire Rapids server boards based on Intel Archer City?

2023-06-20 Thread Peter Stuge
ron minnich wrote: > And, yes, no question, this is an activity that likely occurs less than it > should. Such is our industry. Such is project policy. Maybe because it's the lowest common denominator in industry. > It is not possible to know, a priori, what those common pieces will be. I think

[coreboot] Re: How to best handle new Intel Saphire Rapids server boards based on Intel Archer City?

2023-06-20 Thread David Hendricks
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 4:41 PM Peter Stuge wrote: > > ron minnich wrote: > > And, yes, no question, this is an activity that likely occurs less than it > > should. Such is our industry. > > Such is project policy. Maybe because it's the lowest common > denominator in industry. The project's poli