[U-Boot] [PATCH 32/71] serial: powerpc: Implement CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI into bmw serial driver

Scott Wood
2012-09-19T23:10:29Z

On 09/19/2012 06:05:22 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Scott Wood,
>
> > On 09/19/2012 05:57:56 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > Dear Graeme Russ,
> > >
> > > > Hi Tom,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> > > > > A more elaborate set of statements on my feelings about "old"
> > >
> > > boards
> > >
> > > > > and what needs to happen, in light of the facts that the code
> is
> > > > > messy, will require updating for DM and likelyhood of a small
> but
> > > > > devoted community around some of them.
> > > >
> > > > My gut feeling on this is to either move unmaintained / inactive
> > > > boards to a separate board directory
> > >
> > > And hoard crap? No, you can dig them from git history, the objects
> > > will still be
> > > there.
> > >
> > > > or add a flag to boards.cfg (If
> > > > we add a flag to boards.cfg then we can specify that MAKEALL
> should
> > > > skip those boards)
> > > >
> > > > Either way, we can then let them bit-rot
> > >
> > > I disagree
> > >
> > > > (I know, bad words) but at
> > > > least if someone comes along with an actual board, they have a
> place
> > > > to start.
> > >
> > > They can retrieve it from git history and re-add it in such
> unlikely
> > > case.
> > >
> > > > This is what happened to me with the x86 arch - the existing
> > > > code was horribly broken, but at least I had a solid foundation
> to
> > > > start reinvigorating it.
> > >
> > > It's still horribly broken, but that's partly because of x86
> itself
> > > is a
> > > horribly broken CPU :-)
> >
> > Maybe have a GRAVEYARD file that lists hardware support and other
> > notable features that have been removed, so it's easy for someone to
> > tell whether digging through the git history might be fruitful.
>
> Like doc/README.scrapyard ?

Heh. Yes, except maybe more prominent so people would know it exists.
:-)

That file does seem a bit board-centric; drivers and other things can
die off too.

-Scott