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

Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-02-18T12:24:12Z

On Sunday, February 17, 2013 5:25:33 PM, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote:
> On Sunday, February 17, 2013 5:08:00 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hi Albert,
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:04:54 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD
> > <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Beno?t,
> > >
> > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:51:37 +0100 (CET), Beno?t Th?baudeau
> > > <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> 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.
> > >
> > > Cc:ing the board maintainers, as they should be the first ones to be
> > > asked whether they intend to bring the board into boards.cfg and fix
> > > it, or whether it should be dropped.
> >
> > Scratch this: correct maintainer CC:ed now
>
> Yes, I had already Cc'ed Zhong.

Adding Mike to Cc as he had been assigned the board migration job to boards.cfg,
due for v2012.03. Perhaps he got some information from the SMDK6400 maintainer.

Best regards,
Beno?t