[MinnowBoard] [edk2] [EDK2][MNW2]: Problem building MinnowMAX firmware 0.77 on Windows.

[B Cran]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Krau, Michael P <michael.p.krau at intel.com>
wrote:

>  Our development around MinnowBoard MAX are now centered on the Open
> Source community site.  The BSD content for MinnowBoard MAX is being
> developed from the open source repository (including the platform specific
> packages – Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg and Vlv2TbltDevicePkg ).   So the
> development team is working directly to the sources on the open site.  This
> was established at the insistence of keeping the development open to the
> community.
>

I *do* like this, because with other open source projects which are
maintained by a company I've seen the public code sometimes being several
weeks behind what the developers are working with on the company's servers,
and so you don't know if a bug has already been fixed or not.


>  To make matters more difficult, that site (firmware.intel.com) has rules
> that files are not posted until they have been through a complete
> validation cycle.  So, while we are moving at one speed on the Open Source
> site, the binary files are held to a different speed/cadence.   In the case
> of this time period, there have been changes in the binaries, which come
> back to the problems when using the tip of the Open sources and the old
> files.
>


I presume this couldn't be sidestepped by someone at Intel (or otherwise)
setting up a server on (e.g.) Amazon AWS, even if there was a requirement
for users to register on that site to get access to unvalidated binaries?


> As an aside, there is an effort underway to improve this binary
> distribution de-synch problem and make other requested improvements. As
>  part of this effort we would be grateful to hear of where the process is
> failing, and how we can make improvements.
>
>
As I've mentioned elsewhere, personally I think the edk2 project (and, in
turn MNW2) is a bit too big now for a single mailing list to handle
discussions, bug reports and review requests/feedback - and would like to
see the addition of at least a public replacement for the old bug tracker
that was lost with the sourceforge changes last year.  I'd be happy to host
it, but so far haven't seen much interest.

-- 
Bruce Cran
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