From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Guinot Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:51:14 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/45] arm: Remove most LaCie boards In-Reply-To: <20150902130848.GP25532@bill-the-cat> References: <1440983979-19521-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <1440983979-19521-4-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <20150831075118.GL30993@kw.sim.vm.gnt> <20150902120741.GR30993@kw.sim.vm.gnt> <20150902130848.GP25532@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <20150902155114.GT30993@kw.sim.vm.gnt> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:08:48AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Simon Guinot wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 07:16:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > On 31 August 2015 at 01:51, Simon Guinot wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:18:57PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > > >> These boards have not been converted to generic board by the deadline. > > > >> Remove all except edmini_v2 (which has been converted). > > > > > > > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > > > Great... Is it still time to convert this boards to "generic board" > > > > support ? > > > > > > Yes if you are quick - please see doc/README.generic-board which has > > > instructions. It should be very simple. > > > > OK. It is done. > > > > > > > > > > > > > You know, a direct email (I mean with my email address in the To or Cc > > > > fields) to make me aware of this project would have been both fair and > > > > very appreciated. > > > > > > OK well I'm sorry you haven't seen anything up until now. I wonder if > > > we should cc all the maintainers when we have an announcement that > > > affects their boards. There are a lot of maintainers though! > > > > The result of the current process is a patch series which removes > > support for a _lot_ of boards. It can't be correct. Moreover the > > conversion work consists in adding a single define. I think it would > > be far better to add the missing define for all this boards rather > > than kicking them out. > > So, I understand your frustration. I thought we had sent out an email > or two to board maintainers at various points about this conversion > (which has been going on for over 2 years, and a single line change for > at least a year, pretty much everywhere) but it looks like some boards > slipped through the cracks and didn't get emailed. > > But it's also been a bit over 2 years and I'm pretty sure that at least > 3 or 4 times in my release emails I've said "we're going to delete > boards that aren't converted, please convert and test!". > > So yes, Simon first made a series to blind-convert the straglers but > then we decided to delete instead as this is a good test for how > interested people are in the hardware and if we can drop some code that > will make other conversions which are going on now easier too. I understand. Thanks for the explanation. Simon -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: