[U-Boot] Suggest feature removal: CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Sep 14 18:14:40 CEST 2010


Dear Stefan Roese,

In message <201009141057.22887.sr at denx.de> you wrote:
> 
> upon revisiting the PPC4xx UART driver, I stumbled (again) over the 
> CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO feature. As it seems this feature is only 
> implemented for PPC4xx and is not used in any mainline board ports. Frankly I 
> never really understood why such a "feature" should be used. So I'm asking if 
> anybody is really caring for this feature. If not, I'll send a patch to remove 
> this stuff completely.
> 
> Any comments?

ACK for removal.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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