[task #15959] Submission of boot

[Leah Rowe]

URL:
  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15959>

                 Summary: Submission of boot
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: libreleah
            Submitted on: Thu 29 Apr 2021 12:16:51 PM UTC
         Should Start On: Thu 29 Apr 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC
   Should be Finished on: Sun 09 May 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves
or discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process,
*approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific
Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=12157> page*,
accessible only to site administrators,
effectively *logged as site administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=12157>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *boot*
* System Name:  *boot*
* Type: non-GNU software and documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (The work has not yet begun,
as of 29 April 2021, but will begin soon.)

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== Description: ==
Libre fork of coreboot, which provides boot initialization on many platforms
such as x86, ARM and PowerPC. This project, called Boot, is being created
because of a problem Libreboot has nowadays:

Libreboot, which is a coreboot *distro* (not a fork), downloads, patches and
compiles coreboot, removing any non-free software from it (including binary
blobs), creating a fully free, FSF endorsed boot firmware distribution.

*In the past*, this was sustainable, but nowadays the problem is this:
coreboot regularly *deletes* support for mainboards when they are
"unmaintained", but often those boards still work, it's just that nobody
reported (via board-status repository on coreboot.org) whether the board still
works or not. In other cases, it's because a re-factor was done to the
coreboot source code, or some technical policy change was made:

For example, ASUS KGPE-D16 support in coreboot was dropped because nowadays,
coreboot requires re-locatable  ramstage, postcar stage and
C_ENVIRONMENTAL_BOOTBLOCK (commit f2e42c4a8ec75c162251c72df8ac3da12e8a3eb9 in
coreboot is what removed it, and cites this reason).

Thus, the purpose of Boot will be to provide a *full* de-blobbed fork of
coreboot, with boards re-added; certain technical decisions will diverge from
upstream, but where possible, code will be shared back and forth between Boot
and coreboot.

Libreboot will start using Boot, instead of de-blobbing upstream coreboot.


== Other Comments: ==
I am the founder of the Libreboot project.

The email address I used to register my account here, libreleah, is
leah@libreboot.org

When Boot is ready, and available for people to download and work on, I will
immediately submit it for evaluation to become part of the GNU project. GNU
Boot



I've already started the work, but the website is empty right now, and I
haven't released anything yet. I intend to use the Savannah infrastructure for
mailing list and Git hosting


== Tarball URL: ==
https://gnuboot.org/






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