[Dev] libreboot-utils, moving forward.

Wael Karram wael at waelk.tech
Wed Dec 28 07:50:30 GMT 2022


On Tue, 2022-12-27 at 17:48 +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2022 17:27:59 -0500
> bill-auger <bill-auger at peers.community> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2022 23:01:51 +0100 Denis wrote:
> > > > that could be a mksource PKGBUILD - parabola could provide a
> > > > pre-cleaned source-ball; but those patches would be carried and
> > > > maintained forever, so that solution is essentially soft-forking
> > > Why not continuing to maintain our FSDG compliant version of
> > > Libreboot
> > 
> > the difference being either to freeze the version (as you are
> > suggesting?), or (as i was suggesting) to "liberate" the latest
> > upstream libreboot and re-apply/rebase a patch-set routinely
> > onto new libreboot upstream releases (i suppose the fork could
> > be named 'libreboot-libre')
> I'm suggesting to continue the Libreboot development, starting from the
> point right before it started introducing problematic changes.
> 
> I've already some repositories setup for that but we still need to work
> out how to accept contributions.
> 
> Denis.

Why not rebase on each release instead of a hard-fork?
At least for the foreseeable future it seems to be the easier path, since the
new policy only adds absolutely necessary blobs and no more.
Thus on machines like the T400 we can just patch some small parts in the code to
work-around issues that were being solved in the microcode (much like libreboot
did before), and the newer machines that *require* microcode/blobs can be
dropped altogether.


-- 
Kind Regards,
Wael Karram.


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