[U-Boot] omap1510inn/arm925t: maintain or remove?

[U-Boot] omap1510inn/arm925t: maintain or remove?

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hello all,

(cc: list includes people involved in omap1510inn such as last known
maintainer and a few "recent" contributors to it)

Board omap1510inn is marked orphaned.

It is also the last and only arm925t board not to have been removed
from boards.cfg.

As far as I can tell, this board has only undergone batch changes
actually sweeping over a lot of boards since around june 2011. Its last
specific change (56ccd36fa) was a build fix.

In other words, there hasn't been any activity on it for years.

It also has an ugly trick in start.S where an image header signature
byte is actually hard-coded in the assembler instructions.

Should I try and clean this within my start.S commonalization effort
(first submission tonight, BTW) and move the signature generation
in ./Makefile as a new image rule, or should I simply remove omap1510inn
as well as the whole arm295t support?

My own vote goes for removing; anyone wishing to resurrect the board
can do it from some commit before removal.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

[U-Boot] omap1510inn/arm925t: maintain or remove?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Albert,

In message <20130810084118.2d6c9804@lilith> you wrote:
> 
> Board omap1510inn is marked orphaned.
...
> Should I try and clean this within my start.S commonalization effort
> (first submission tonight, BTW) and move the signature generation
> in ./Makefile as a new image rule, or should I simply remove omap1510inn
> as well as the whole arm295t support?
> 
> My own vote goes for removing; anyone wishing to resurrect the board
> can do it from some commit before removal.

My vote goes for removal, too.  This is stuff which has long reached
EOL.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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[U-Boot] omap1510inn/arm925t: maintain or remove?

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Wolfgang Denk,

> Dear Albert,
> 
> In message <20130810084118.2d6c9804@lilith> you wrote:
> > Board omap1510inn is marked orphaned.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Should I try and clean this within my start.S commonalization effort
> > (first submission tonight, BTW) and move the signature generation
> > in ./Makefile as a new image rule, or should I simply remove omap1510inn
> > as well as the whole arm295t support?
> > 
> > My own vote goes for removing; anyone wishing to resurrect the board
> > can do it from some commit before removal.
> 
> My vote goes for removal, too.  This is stuff which has long reached
> EOL.

I have one OMAP1510 board running U-Boot 1.1.3 (Palm Tungsten|T), but I dont 
think I will ever touch it again, so my vote goes for removal too.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut