Dear Michael Schwingen,
In message <4d4acba0.9030...@discworld.dascon.de> you wrote:
>
> > Note that still a large number of ARM boards are broken. I hope many
> > people join the efforts and fix all the currently broken boards.
> > Thanks in advance to everybody who lends a helping hand.
> >
> What is the time frame?
The original entry in doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt said:
Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed
after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been
converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are
considered unmaintained and without interest for the
community and will be removed as well.
Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC has already been dropped,
which makes the problem obvious, but the time frame remains: boards
that are not working after v2011.03 has been released are treated as
wolfsheads i. e. may be killed on sight by anybody who submits such a
patch.
Of course, you can still object to such patches, but then you will
probably be asked to provide fixes to make the respective board
working before the end of the merge window.
> This works fine for configuration, and I can dump and modify memory (eg.
> the bootrom on a E1000 card), but I can't get any of the ethernet
> drivers to work - possibly due to endian issues, but this might take
> some time to sort out.
>
> Would it be OK to commit this as-is, knowing it may require some further
> fixups? At least it does work better than before.
>From my point of view this is OK. And if you are actually working on
this, then there is little danger. We will not remove a board that is
visibly actively being maintained,
> Otherwise, I could leave out the whole PCI area and only provide patches
> for the boards without PCI, leaving IXP PCI in its current broken state.
Even that would be OK, as it's still an improvemnt over the status
quo.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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