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Re-upstreaming and maintainership of the KGPE-D16 - Cost: 30 000E and counting

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Description

There was a proposition to do required work under refused grant application. If there is interest from third party to fund conjointly needed work, board could be maintained and reupstreamed, under u-bmc, coreboot and under Heads.

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- Proposition from 3mdeb [here](https://github.com/3mdeb/kgpe-osf/pull/1)

- History [here](https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/719#issuecomment-627605335)
- ~Possible funding path [here](https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/719#issuecomment-627607853)~
- EDIT: Funded by Immunefi https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/719#issuecomment-893024079
- Work plan: https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/719#issuecomment-921877456
- Trail of 4.11 reported problems: https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/719#issuecomment-995879031

Last updates, newsletter, code source drop : https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/719#issuecomment-966729133

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the linked 3mdeb proposition, the project history, and the work plan in the issue comments. Review the reported 4.11 problems and the source drop before determining the required work. Done means the KGPE-D16 board is maintained and re-upstreamed under u-bmc, coreboot, and Heads.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
embedded-iot, operating-systems, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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