[U-Boot] [PATCH] logodl: : remove code for yet another corpse

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 06:48:42 CEST 2010


Dne St 6. října 2010 05:41:12 Graeme Russ napsal(a):
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dne Út 5. října 2010 22:03:23 Wolfgang Denk napsal(a):
> >> The logodl board has long been unmaintained and left broken.
> >> As obviously nobody is interestedin that code any more, we may as well
> >> remove it.
> > 
> > I'd like to NACK it as it's sad to kill a board, but whatever. I don't
> > own one.
> 
> I vote for creating an 'unmaintained/broken boards' directory and moving
> all the broken boards into it (and remove them from the boards.cfg and
> makeall script etc). At least that way if anyone dusts off an old board
> they can at least see where it was up to. Maybe also a short note to
> indicate the last known 'good' release of U-Boot that each board worked
> with to allow anyone interested to get it back up to speed faster

Well you can always dig this from git :) This approach is nice, but then we'd 
have to remove this broken/unmaintained directory from the release tarball -- 
noone wants to pack broken stuff with release :)
> 
> The first thing that is always said when someone asks about a board they
> have been given/bought with an old version of U-Boot is to upgrade, pretty
> hard to do if it's been nuked from the tree ;)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Graeme


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