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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tune-i586-nlp.inc: drop tuning file for Intel Quark/X1000 CPU
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On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 10:21 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On 5/31/18 6:10 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> > > 
> > > The Quark machine was EOL'ed at the end of 2017 and all support
> > > for
> > > it has now been removed from meta-intel. Drop the associated
> > > tuning
> > > file from oe-core.
> > I would rather this remain.  There are still a lot of people using
> > the quark
> > based boards as hobbyists... there is little effort to maintain it
> > for now.
> > 
> > (we still have support for ARMv4 for instance, which hasn't really
> > been used in
> > new designs in a while..)
> Is there ever a case when we would drop old tuning files? Or should
> they live on forever?
> 
> We dropped GPLv2 recipes from oe-core on the grounds that they are
> old, unmaintained and untested. ARMv4 CPU tuning files meet those
> criteria too.

We removed the GPLv2 recipes as they created a false sense of security
for people and a message needed to be sent out about them. They were a
maintenance problem.

These tune files aren't really causing a problem right now, from a
maintenance or security perspective.

Yes, we should remove things which are stale/obsolete and not useful
but I think people are using this file and its not causing a problem.

Cheers,

Richard