From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:51:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp103.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([IPv6:::ffff:68.142.200.238]:19300 "HELO smtp103.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:51:02 +0100 Received: (qmail 79553 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2005 19:50:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.111?) (ppopov@embeddedalley.com@71.128.175.242 with plain) by smtp103.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2005 19:50:54 -0000 Subject: Re: deletion of boards From: Pete Popov Reply-To: ppopov@embeddedalley.com To: Sylvain Munaut Cc: "'linux-mips@linux-mips.org'" In-Reply-To: <43272A02.7030603@246tNt.com> References: <1126575034.11755.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43272A02.7030603@246tNt.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:51:04 -0700 Message-Id: <1126641064.11755.166.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8934 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 21:35 +0200, Sylvain Munaut wrote: > Pete Popov wrote: > > The AMD Pb1000, Pb1100, Pb1500, and Hydrogen3 boards are not up to date > > in 2.6 and seem to be of very little interest to anyone. Any objections > > if I remove them to reduce the clutter? > > > > Pete > > > > > > Theses files were of some help when bringing up new board based on thos > processors. Why not use the Db1x equivalent? If you have an au1000 based board, you should probably base your port on the db1000 board, not the pb1000 anyway. I didn't get a clear answer on whether it's ok to remove those boards but I guess that's normal. The problem with keeping boards around that very few people are interested in is that no one maintains them, the code is broken, and quite honestly I think it creates confusion for developers that have a custom board based on, let's say, the Au1500. Unless that developer knows that the pb1000 code is broken, how would he know to base his code on the db1000 instead of the pb1000? If the support for these boards is broken now, it will only get worst. Anytime someone makes mods to supported boards, it's bound to break something in the already unsupported ones and make that code even more unusable. Pete