From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Graeme Russ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:09:06 +1100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] logodl: : remove code for yet another corpse In-Reply-To: <4CAC0000.5050504@emk-elektronik.de> References: <1286309003-2934-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de> <201010060532.51445.marek.vasut@gmail.com> <4CAC0000.5050504@emk-elektronik.de> Message-ID: <4CAC2EA2.5070408@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 06/10/10 15:50, Reinhard Meyer wrote: > Dear Graeme Russ, >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Marek Vasut >> wrote: >> 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. > Yeah, I think this is a good solution. Maybe mentioning the last known maintainer / major code contributor would also be helpful Regards, Graeme