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

Marcel Ziswiler
2016-10-28T10:44:34Z

On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 16:30 +0000, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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?

Thanks Simon, I'm looking into it right now.

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

Yeah, I guess the only constant is change (;-p).

> > >
> > >
> > > 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