Dear Scott Wood, > 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.
Like doc/README.scrapyard ? > -Scott Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
