[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] dm: Update on serial driver progress

Simon Glass
2016-10-26T16:30:55Z

Hi,

On 21 October 2016 at 01:10, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> On 10/21/2016 08:52 AM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
>> Hi Simon
>>
>> On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 13:06 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> Only three serial drivers remain to be converted. This series drops
>>> two of those, since the boards appear to be unmaintained.
>>>
>>> With this, only blackfin remains.
>>>
>>> The blackfin driver probably needs to be converted as there is recent
>>> activity with these boards. I am copying the maintainer so that this
>>> work can be completed.
>>
>> Could you please hold off with dropping the PXA serial driver and
>> accompanying PXA270 support. I will have a look at it ASAP. We do
>> actually continue to sell the Colibri PXA270 (as we are the Colibri
>> PXA320) and I have been maintaining it lately with sending patches as
>> recently as last week! It would be rather sad to see it drop like the
>> PXA3xx support did a couple years back when we were too busy with other
>> issues.

OK we can hold off - when do you expect to do this?

Also re PXA3xx, please feel free to bring it back. If I recall it was
only removed long after the deadline for conversion.

>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>> Simon Glass (8):
>>> arm: Remove colibri_pxa270 board
>>> arm: Remove h2200 board
>>> arm: Remove zipitz2 board
>>> arm: Drop pxa serial driver
>
> Whoa, would be nice to keep me on Cc regarding PXA stuff. Thanks for
> CCing me, Marcel. And I would like to NAK these first four patches.
>
>>> serial: Update docs to indicate mcfuart supports DM_SERIAL
>>> arm: Remove smdk2410 board
>>> arm: Remove VCMA9 board
>>> serial: Drop the s3c24x0 serial driver
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut

Regards,
Simon