Dear Graeme Russ, > Hi Tom, > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: > > A more elaborate set of statements on my feelings about "old" boards > > and what needs to happen, in light of the facts that the code is > > messy, will require updating for DM and likelyhood of a small but > > devoted community around some of them. > > My gut feeling on this is to either move unmaintained / inactive > boards to a separate board directory
And hoard crap? No, you can dig them from git history, the objects will still be there. > or add a flag to boards.cfg (If > we add a flag to boards.cfg then we can specify that MAKEALL should > skip those boards) > > Either way, we can then let them bit-rot I disagree > (I know, bad words) but at > least if someone comes along with an actual board, they have a place > to start. They can retrieve it from git history and re-add it in such unlikely case. > This is what happened to me with the x86 arch - the existing > code was horribly broken, but at least I had a solid foundation to > start reinvigorating it. It's still horribly broken, but that's partly because of x86 itself is a horribly broken CPU :-) > Regards, > > Graeme Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
