> because at the time Coreboot wasn't doing their own releases, so doing release engineering and such around Coreboot was a lot more of a value-add.
Distributions can still offer value through release engineering steps that coreboot skips: https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/checklist.html#purpose-of-... says about releases: "Our releases aren’t primarily a vehicle for code that is stable across all boards ... Instead, the releases are regular breakpoints ..."
Stable libreboot releases, MrChromebox's releases (over at mrchromebox.tech), vendor releases (Chromebooks, System76, Purism, Starlabs, ...) and so on are useful because they provide more rigorous testing for the subset of devices they actively support.
Unless you're a developer and/or have tools to recover from a bad flash, these releases are more likely to get you a useful firmware image compared to coreboot.org releases.
(That doesn't mean we're not doing _any_ testing before releasing on coreboot.org, but it's somewhat stochastic: whatever the release team has tested themselves or got reports on is good, everything else is of unknown quality.)
Distributions can still offer value through release engineering steps that coreboot skips: https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/checklist.html#purpose-of-... says about releases: "Our releases aren’t primarily a vehicle for code that is stable across all boards ... Instead, the releases are regular breakpoints ..."
Stable libreboot releases, MrChromebox's releases (over at mrchromebox.tech), vendor releases (Chromebooks, System76, Purism, Starlabs, ...) and so on are useful because they provide more rigorous testing for the subset of devices they actively support.
Unless you're a developer and/or have tools to recover from a bad flash, these releases are more likely to get you a useful firmware image compared to coreboot.org releases.
(That doesn't mean we're not doing _any_ testing before releasing on coreboot.org, but it's somewhat stochastic: whatever the release team has tested themselves or got reports on is good, everything else is of unknown quality.)