[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 16/19] arm926ejs: Remove deprecated and now unused NAND SPL

Albert ARIBAUD
2013-02-17T16:04:54Z

Hi Beno?t,

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:51:37 +0100 (CET), Beno?t Th?baudeau
<benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> wrote:

> Hi Albert, Tom, Zhong,
>
> On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:54:22 PM, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Beno?t Th?baudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
> > ---
> > Changes in v7: None
> > Changes in v6:
> > - New patch.
> >
> > Changes in v5: None
> > Changes in v4: None
> > Changes in v3: None
> > Changes in v2: None
> >
> > arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S | 10 ----------
> > 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
>
> I would like to get your feedback regarding the status of the Samsung SMDK6400
> board:
> - It is not in boards.cfg, so, according to commit 1285a28, support for it
> should already have been removed a long time ago. It also seems to be the
> only board remaining in the main Makefile.
> - It uses the deprecated NAND SPL.
> - MAKEALL does not test its build, which has been broken for a while.
> - If it were removed or fixed, ARM1176's start.S' relocate_code() could be made
> identical to all the other implementations of this function, so all this
> duplicated code could be moved to a common location like crt0.S. Besides
> that, it would be possible to completely get rid of the legacy NAND SPL on
> ARM.
>
> I have no intention of fixing this board, but dropping it and cleaning up ARM
> after that would be easy.

Cc:ing the board maintainers, as they should be the first ones to be
asked whether they intend to bring the board into boards.cfg and fix
it, or whether it should be dropped.

> Best regards,
> Beno?t

Amicalement,
--
Albert.