Beyond the BC-250: is a Generic edition worth maintaining?

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Every release ships two images: BC-250 and Generic x86-64. The Generic one is the
same system with an ordinary kernel, for PCs and virtual machines.

It costs real effort — a second kernel flavour, a second image to build, capture and
verify, and a second thing to get wrong (the BC-250 edition once installed and then booted
the generic kernel, which is exactly the sort of mistake having two editions invites).

The case for keeping it: it is how most people can look at the project without owning the
board, and it is what the installation guide screenshots are taken on.

The case against: everything interesting here — live CU control, the SMU governor, the
overclock profiles, the core unlock — has nothing to do on other hardware, and what remains
is Debian with a nice theme. There are better-maintained distributions for that.

If you are running the Generic edition: what do you use it for? That answer decides
whether it stays a first-class image or becomes "install Debian, add our apt repo".

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I think other AMD processors are not configured properly like the 6600u performance is abysmal but in windows it approaches 6800U in performance and in games too. Only PikaOS and OpenSuse tumbleweed got it right. I don't know if others got it right this time at kernel 7.x.x because I don't want to test so many distros again. Maybe making a version just for AMDs only would be popular.