From: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@infinera.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Orphan Freescale PowerPC boards
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 17:29:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495042176.2519.9.camel@infinera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170517172550.GU5701@bill-the-cat>
On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 13:25 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:57:57PM +0000, york sun wrote:
> > On 05/09/2017 08:52 AM, York Sun wrote:
> > > On 05/09/2017 08:49 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:46:46AM -0700, York Sun wrote:
> > > > > On 05/09/2017 05:36 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:19:37PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi York,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I see some orphan boards under board/freescale directory.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > $ find board/freescale -name MAINTAINERS | xargs grep Orphan
> > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8555cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
> > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8641hpcn/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
> > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8540ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
> > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8541cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
> > > > > > > board/freescale/mx31ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2013-09)
> > > > > > > board/freescale/m5253evbe/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
> > > > > > > board/freescale/mpc8560ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Will you pick up the maintainership if you want to keep them?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Related to that, there's also mpc83xx support, do you wish to pick that
> > > > > > up? Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > What options do I have? They are really old boards.
> > > >
> > > > Well, if you don't want to pick them up, we can drop them. If someone
> > > > later wants to support them, they can step up.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Let me ask our FAEs to see if there is any customer using these boards.
> > > If not, and nobody in this community cares them, we can drop them.
> > >
> >
> > I will pick up the ownership of MPC8555CDS, MPC8641HPCN, MPC8541CDS, and
> > drop the support of MPC8540ADS and MPC8560ADS.
> >
> > It is not clear who will maintain mpc83xx, and other orphan boards. In
> > 2015, Sinan Akman offered to maintain mpc83xx. The discussion didn't
> > yield any result.
>
> I think we'll just drop mpc83xx then. Thanks for looking into this!
We still use custom mpc83xx boards and we would like to continue to
do so in later u-boot.
Jocke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-17 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-09 12:19 [U-Boot] Orphan Freescale PowerPC boards Masahiro Yamada
2017-05-09 12:37 ` Tom Rini
2017-05-09 15:46 ` York Sun
2017-05-09 15:50 ` Tom Rini
2017-05-09 15:52 ` York Sun
2017-05-17 16:57 ` york sun
2017-05-17 17:25 ` Tom Rini
2017-05-17 17:29 ` Joakim Tjernlund [this message]
2017-05-17 17:36 ` Tom Rini
2017-05-24 12:16 ` Dirk Eibach
2017-05-24 12:19 ` Tom Rini
2017-05-17 19:14 ` Sinan Akman
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