From: Reinhard Meyer <u-boot@emk-elektronik.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] logodl: : remove code for yet another corpse
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:50:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAC0000.5050504@emk-elektronik.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=T2qu8xr-p4Aj8FMFcB90u_GN+2SAv33sk1u9g@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Graeme Russ,
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Marek Vasut<marek.vasut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dne ?t 5. ??jna 2010 22:03:23 Wolfgang Denk napsal(a):
>>> The logodl board has long been unmaintained and left broken.
>>> As obviously nobody is interestedin that code any more, we may as well
>>> remove it.
>>
>> I'd like to NACK it as it's sad to kill a board, but whatever. I don't own one.
>>
>
> I vote for creating an 'unmaintained/broken boards' directory and moving
> all the broken boards into it (and remove them from the boards.cfg and
> makeall script etc). At least that way if anyone dusts off an old board
> they can at least see where it was up to. Maybe also a short note to
> indicate the last known 'good' release of U-Boot that each board worked
> with to allow anyone interested to get it back up to speed faster
>
> The first thing that is always said when someone asks about a board they
> have been given/bought with an old version of U-Boot is to upgrade, pretty
> hard to do if it's been nuked from the tree ;)
A text file in doc, like README.historic-boards would suffice, indicating
which u-boot release that board was nuked. It would also be good to mention
CPU that board used. So anyone looking to support a similar board could have
a look and with git its possible to get the old files.
Reinhard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-06 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 20:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH] logodl: : remove code for yet another corpse Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-06 3:32 ` Marek Vasut
2010-10-06 3:41 ` Graeme Russ
2010-10-06 4:48 ` Marek Vasut
2010-10-06 4:50 ` Reinhard Meyer [this message]
2010-10-06 8:09 ` Graeme Russ
2010-10-19 19:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] doc/README.scrapyard: add documentation for abandoned boards Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-19 20:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-19 19:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] logodl: : remove code for yet another corpse Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-06 7:28 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-18 19:49 ` Wolfgang Denk
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