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

Reinhard Meyer u-boot at emk-elektronik.de
Wed Oct 6 06:50:08 CEST 2010


Dear Graeme Russ,
> 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
>
> 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 ;)

A text file in doc, like README.historic-boards would suffice, indicating
which u-boot release that board was nuked. It would also be good to mention
CPU that board used. So anyone looking to support a similar board could have
a look and with git its possible to get the old files.

Reinhard


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