[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] ixp/npe: Move conditional compilation to Makefile

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Thu Jan 22 12:25:48 CET 2009


On 12:32 Thu 22 Jan     , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
> 
> In message <20090122110942.GA22829 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
> >
> > > I ask if it would not make more sense to remove all this code and drop
> > > support for these nun-working boards, especially since nobody cares to
> > > fix them.
> > I agree but I've not the time to merge the new linux drivers in u-boot
> > and actually it's the only way to have the network in u-boot
> 
> I didn't ask you to fix that.
> 
> I suggest we remove the code for these broken boards from the U-Boot
> tree.
> 
> > I'll make an announce but as I already said before I'll not ack any new cpu or
> > update of the NPE anyway. So if someone wish to add the IXP465, 435 or other
> > we must use a new network driver no the current one
> 
> If someone fixes the problem later, we can easily re-add the code.
we can easly fix it by removing the option to embedeed the FW
and update the board config to load it from flash
until we have a new clean drivers

Best Regards,
J.


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