[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 16/19] arm926ejs: Remove deprecated and now unused NAND SPL

Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-02-18T20:39:33Z

Hi Tom,

On Monday, February 18, 2013 5:40:21 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 04:51:37PM +0100, Beno??t Th??baudeau wrote:
> > Hi Albert, Tom, Zhong,
> >
> > On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:54:22 PM, Beno??t Th??baudeau wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Beno??t Th??baudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
> > > ---
> > > Changes in v7: None
> > > Changes in v6:
> > > - New patch.
> > >
> > > Changes in v5: None
> > > Changes in v4: None
> > > Changes in v3: None
> > > Changes in v2: None
> > >
> > > arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S | 10 ----------
> > > 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > I would like to get your feedback regarding the status of the Samsung
> > SMDK6400
> > board:
> > - It is not in boards.cfg, so, according to commit 1285a28, support for it
> > should already have been removed a long time ago. It also seems to be
> > the
> > only board remaining in the main Makefile.
> > - It uses the deprecated NAND SPL.
> > - MAKEALL does not test its build, which has been broken for a while.
> > - If it were removed or fixed, ARM1176's start.S' relocate_code() could be
> > made
> > identical to all the other implementations of this function, so all this
> > duplicated code could be moved to a common location like crt0.S. Besides
> > that, it would be possible to completely get rid of the legacy NAND SPL
> > on
> > ARM.
> >
> > I have no intention of fixing this board, but dropping it and cleaning up
> > ARM
> > after that would be easy.
>
> I'm in favor of removing and updating README.scrapyard, baring quick
> attention from the maintainer to update it to not being using the
> Makefile and fix the rest of the breakage.

OK. The s3c64xx SoC and all the drivers coming with it then become unused.
Should this be removed too? There may be out-of-tree users of this SoC.

Best regards,
Beno?t