Removing Barreleye, Firestone, Garrison

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 30 13:38:12 AEDT 2018


Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> writes:
> I am working on ensuring the boards that we build for are working with
> the dev-4.13 kernel branch. Currently Barreleye, Firestone and
> Garrison systems fail as there has not been a device tree forward
> ported.
>
> Is there an interest in maintaining these platforms?
>
> If not, I will remove them from CI on Friday to unblock the kernel work.
>
> This does not stop someone re-enabling them in the near future should
> interest arise. However, I suggest we create a policy on removing
> abandoned machines when there is no one actively maintaining them, and
> we use this to delete machines once they reach the agreed criteria.

>From a primarily consumer of OpenBMC perspective, I think it's okay to
remove them. Booting the host on Firestone/Garrison with OpenBMC has
always been somewhat sketchy.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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