On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:29:37PM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 13:25 -0400, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:57:57PM +0000, york sun wrote: > > > On 05/09/2017 08:52 AM, York Sun wrote: > > > > On 05/09/2017 08:49 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:46:46AM -0700, York Sun wrote: > > > > > > On 05/09/2017 05:36 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:19:37PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi York, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see some orphan boards under board/freescale directory. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > $ find board/freescale -name MAINTAINERS | xargs grep Orphan > > > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8555cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06) > > > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8641hpcn/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since > > > > > > > > 2014-06) > > > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8540ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06) > > > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8541cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06) > > > > > > > > board/freescale/mx31ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2013-09) > > > > > > > > board/freescale/m5253evbe/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06) > > > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8560ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Will you pick up the maintainership if you want to keep them? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Related to that, there's also mpc83xx support, do you wish to > > > > > > > pick that > > > > > > > up? Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > What options do I have? They are really old boards. > > > > > > > > > > Well, if you don't want to pick them up, we can drop them. If someone > > > > > later wants to support them, they can step up. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Let me ask our FAEs to see if there is any customer using these boards. > > > > If not, and nobody in this community cares them, we can drop them. > > > > > > > > > > I will pick up the ownership of MPC8555CDS, MPC8641HPCN, MPC8541CDS, and > > > drop the support of MPC8540ADS and MPC8560ADS. > > > > > > It is not clear who will maintain mpc83xx, and other orphan boards. In > > > 2015, Sinan Akman offered to maintain mpc83xx. The discussion didn't > > > yield any result. > > > > I think we'll just drop mpc83xx then. Thanks for looking into this! > > We still use custom mpc83xx boards and we would like to continue to > do so in later u-boot.
That's fine too. Can you please send a patch taking it up in MAINTAINERS and which of the various reference platforms you'll maintain? There's also a number of gdsys boards in mpc83xx too, Dirk, do you have interest in becoming the mpc83xx custodian? Co-custodianship is fine too. Thanks! -- Tom
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