[Dev] libreboot-utils, moving forward.

[Wael Karram]

On Sun, 2023-03-05 at 12:40 -0500, bill-auger wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 12:32:22 -0500 bill-auger wrote:
> > would be silly to fork libreboot - seems like it would be more
> > sensible to fork coreboot, and name the fork like
> > 'truly-libre-boot'
> 
> re-reading, that looks like a joke - that was not my intention -
> it was not merely word-play, in jest
> 
> what i meant, was for the sake of semantics - the way parabola
> normally does that, it results in source-balls and/or a git repo
> named like 'foo-libre' - so to fork libreboot in that way, we
> would have libreboot-libre, which is silly

On the surface that assessment makes sense, but libreboot (while not libre
anymore) still carries additional value compared to upstream coreboot.
First of all, it standardizes a release schedule and releases in general,
whereas coreboot is rolling-release more or less (I realize they have official
releases with numbering, but it isn't related to usability or state of code in a
direct manner).
I.E.: "known good release".

Moreover, libreboot makes building the coreboot sources much more simple and
streamlined.
So far, most of the deviation from older versions of libreboot shows up in the
form of adding boards that aren't fully libre.
This means it is still easier to librate libreboot than duplicating a lot of the
effort all over separately.


-- 
Kind Regards,
Wael Karram.


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