here's my reply, as things are left atm. i'm thinking some of blockchain collaboration to reduce paranoia. previously, the thread seemed broken into factions, where a pair of people were arguing ferventlty and illogically to remove quark from the tree. they have reasonable points but don't back them up with logic, rather mismatching the logic. with this further disconnection one starts imagining the list breaking into fake lists where participants are surrounded by fake peers who treat them crummily. that's what blockchains and a handful of other p2p techs are designed to avoid ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [coreboot] Re: Deprecation of the Intel Quark SoC To: Patrick Georgi <patrick@coreboot.org> Cc: Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com>, Coreboot <coreboot@coreboot.org> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 6:26 AM Patrick Georgi <patrick@coreboot.org> wrote:

Am 12.04.2022 um 23:54 schrieb Karl Semich:

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Obviously a way to sidestep all this would be to simply test the board in question, which is a small investment of money and time. I appreciate that you volunteer to do that for Quark. Can't be too bad, it's a small investment of money and time, after all.

Sorry, have I offended you? What is it you read me as saying? Does this seem lengthy or expensive to you?