On 09/19/2012 05:57:56 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
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 :-)
Maybe have a GRAVEYARD file that lists hardware support and other
notable features that have been removed, so it's easy for someone to
tell whether digging through the git history might be fruitful.
-Scott
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