[U-Boot] [PATCH 03/45] arm: Remove most LaCie boards

Simon Guinot
2015-09-02T12:07:41Z

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 07:16:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On 31 August 2015 at 01:51, Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org> 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.

>
> It is probably worth checking in every now and then to see what is going on.

Sure.

Simon
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