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

Marek Vasut
2012-09-19T22:57:56Z

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 :-)

> Regards,
>
> Graeme

Best regards,
Marek Vasut