[U-Boot] AT91: How treat outdated/unmaintained boards/code - was [PATCH v3 1/2] at91rm9200ek: add configure target for RAM boot

[Jens Scharsig]

Am 2010-10-31 17:57, schrieb Andreas Bießmann:
> Dear Reinhard Meyer,
> 
> Am 31.10.2010 um 16:24 schrieb Reinhard Meyer:
> 
>> Dear Wolfgang Denk, Andreas Bießmann,
>>> -at91rm9200ek	arm	arm920t		-		atmel		at91
>>> +at91rm9200ek	arm	arm920t		at91rm9200ek	atmel		at91	at91rm9200ek
>>> +at91rm9200ek_ram	arm	arm920t		at91rm9200ek	atmel		at91	at91rm9200ek:RAMBOOT
>>
>> Just two technical questions:
>>
>> 1. Who is taking this patch in?
> 
> cause this is atmel/at91 related it should go through u-boot-atmel. The patches are on top of atmel/at91: '816dd1b AT91: add header file for the Shutdown Controller'.
> 
>> 2. Should we, since Atmel is not likely maintaining the boards,
>> change relevant maintainers entries (if the person fixing
>> that Atmel board agrees)?
> 
> 
> docs/README.arm-relocation says: "Boards which are not fixed to support relocation will be REMOVED!"
> If one can fix some remaining atmel (or arm in general) boards they should become the new maintainer.
> 
> 3. How should we treat at91rm9200 boards which are not transformed to at91. I plan to get the at91rm9200 device drivers (at91rm9200_usart, emac) merged with at91 implementation. When we do this transition (will last til end of this year at least; not before 2011.03/maybe 2011.06) we could completely delete the deprecated drivers. Thus we break at91rm9200 boards completely (which may not working at all due to new arm relocation stuff ... but who knows/test this/is responsible for?). Should we write down/propagate a time schedule for this transition as it is done for arm relocation? Should we drop those possible not working boards in general?
> 
> Jens, you began with at91rm9200 to at91 transition as far as I know. How do you think about it? In README.at91rm9200 there is a little definition how to do the transition from at91rm9200 to at91 but no time schedule or dead line.

The at91 code for at91rm9200 are in git since 2010.01. We have had three
releases since then. That's enough time for the maintainer to convert
the boards.

regards Jens