From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.2]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDEECE014D0 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e6520eb (pac33-2-82-240-38-71.fbx.proxad.net [82.240.38.71]) (Authenticated sender: eukrea) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60F3D4B01E7; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:06:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:06:44 +0200 From: Eric =?UTF-8?B?QsOpbmFyZA==?= To: Otavio Salvador Message-ID: <20130410150644.72e8765c@e6520eb> In-Reply-To: References: <1365535321-27350-1-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1365535321-27350-8-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <5164D31A.7030108@gmail.com> <20130410141524.334be50f@e6520eb> Organization: =?UTF-8?B?RXVrcsOpYQ==?= Electromatique X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: meta-freescale Mailing List Subject: Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH v2 6/8] u-boot-imx: Remove Wandboard patch as it is not supported by mainline X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:06:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:20:28 -0300, Otavio Salvador a =C3=A9crit : > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Eric B=C3=A9nard wrote: > > Hi Otavio, > > > > Le Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:56:01 -0300, > > Otavio Salvador a =C3=A9crit : > > > >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:48 PM, John Weber wro= te: > >> > Are we completely gutting the old u-boot for wandboard dual? This p= atch > >> > doesn't pertain to mainline but it does still work for the FSL u-boo= t. > >> > >> I'd prefer to remove old and unused code. Except if you have a reason > >> to keep it? > >> > >> Both Dual and Solo variants are going to use U-Boot mainline and noone > >> will use this, except if explicitly set. So I think in the end it > >> won't be used at all. Do you see a reason to keep it? > > > > maybe because you are migrating several boards to a new bootloader which > > is not even stable (u-boot 2013.04 is at rc2) and not present in the > > official Freescale BSP ? >=20 > Wandboard support is not present in official BSP either; the U-Boot is > being daily tested by Fabio and me so it had a good coverage. >=20 if two testers of a -rc2 is a good coverage to migrate several boards (including some official Freescale evk) to this -rc2 a few days before the release then everything is fine, sorry for the annoyance. > > Or maybe the policy has changed since last week and you consider > > there is no risk to migrate to a -rc bootloader just before the > > release ;-) >=20 > The point is support. In case of maintain branch of kernel you won't > be able to open SR issues about this kernel while U-Boot the support > is already given by community. >=20 > So the policy is to allow the change when we will have support; not > the opposite. >=20 OK fine. Eric