[U-Boot] Orphan Freescale PowerPC boards

[Sinan Akman <sinan@writeme.com>]

   Hi York

york sun wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 08:52 AM, York Sun wrote:
>> On 05/09/2017 08:49 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:46:46AM -0700, York Sun wrote:
>>>> On 05/09/2017 05:36 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:19:37PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>>>> Hi York,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see some orphan boards under board/freescale directory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ find board/freescale -name MAINTAINERS | xargs grep Orphan
>>>>>> board/freescale/mpc8555cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>>>> board/freescale/mpc8641hpcn/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>>>> board/freescale/mpc8540ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>>>> board/freescale/mpc8541cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>>>> board/freescale/mx31ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2013-09)
>>>>>> board/freescale/m5253evbe/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>>>> board/freescale/mpc8560ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will you pick up the maintainership if you want to keep them?
>>>>> Related to that, there's also mpc83xx support, do you wish to pick that
>>>>> up?  Thanks!
>>>> What options do I have? They are really old boards.
>>> Well, if you don't want to pick them up, we can drop them.  If someone
>>> later wants to support them, they can step up.
>>>
>> Let me ask our FAEs to see if there is any customer using these boards.
>> If not, and nobody in this community cares them, we can drop them.
>>
> 
> I will pick up the ownership of MPC8555CDS, MPC8641HPCN, MPC8541CDS, and 
> drop the support of MPC8540ADS and MPC8560ADS.
> 
> It is not clear who will maintain mpc83xx, and other orphan boards. In 
> 2015, Sinan Akman offered to maintain mpc83xx. The discussion didn't 
> yield any result.

   I'll see what mpc83xx boards I still have access to. I can then offer to
run some tests regularly if some of those boards stay maintained.

   Regards

   Sinan Akman