From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sinan Akman Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 15:14:23 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] Orphan Freescale PowerPC boards In-Reply-To: References: <20170509123751.GM12511@bill-the-cat> <20170509155057.GS12511@bill-the-cat> <443dc63d-3a64-b30b-e34d-02184cdb3e8f@nxp.com> Message-ID: <591CA10F.9020601@writeme.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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