[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26] arm: add full relocation / cache support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Aug 13 12:01:31 CEST 2010


Dear Magnus Lilja,

In message <4C645E51.6020804 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> Dear Wolfgang Denk,
> 
> > The plan is as follows:
> > 
> > I will pull this stuff into the "next" branch about one week after I
> > released "rc1". I intend to keep this "CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC"
> > feature for a full release cycle. Early in the next branch for the
> > following release it will be removed. Any boards that are not yet
> > converted then will break. If the breakage does not get fixed by
> > board maintainers or interested users, we will remove these obviously
> > unmaintained boards, then.
> 
> I thought the standard way was that when someone makes a change he's
> responsible for updating all code that's affected by the change.

Yes, that's the standard way.

But this is a non-standard situation: the change cannot be
implemented without knowledge about and not verified without access
to the hardware.  We depend on the help of the board maintainers
and/or users.

> Anyway, I hope that either you or Heiko Schocher ping all the
> maintainers of affected boards. If I was one, I would certainly

We can only try to Cc: those who are listed in the MAINTAINERS file.
There are some orphaned boards for which it is not clear if anybody
still cares about these, or who.

> easily miss this (don't read all mail, only scan the subject lines).

Well, you would probably notice when your board does not build any
more ? ;-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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