[U-Boot] [STATUS] v2011.03-rc1 released

[Michael Schwingen]

Am 02/03/2011 08:27 PM, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Michael Schwingen,
>
> In message <4D4ACBA0.9030607 at discworld.dascon.de> you wrote:
>>> Note that still a large number of ARM boards are broken. I hope many
>>> people join the efforts and fix all the currently broken boards.
>>> Thanks in advance to everybody who lends a helping hand.
>>>   
>> What is the time frame?
> The original entry in doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt said:
>
> 	Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed
> 	after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been
> 	converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are
> 	considered unmaintained and without interest for the
> 	community and will be removed as well.
>
> Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC has already been dropped,
> which makes the problem obvious, but the time frame remains: boards
> that are not working after v2011.03 has been released are treated as
> wolfsheads i. e. may be killed on sight by anybody who submits such a
> patch.
>
> Of course, you can still object to such patches, but then you will
> probably be asked to provide fixes to make the respective board
> working before the end of the merge window.
Sorry, unclear wording on my part - I meant "what is the timeframe to
submit the final version of the patches for inclusion into the current
release".

>> This works fine for configuration, and I can dump and modify memory (eg. 
>> the bootrom on a E1000 card), but I can't get any of the ethernet 
>> drivers to work - possibly due to endian issues, but this might take 
>> some time to sort out.
>>
>> Would it be OK to commit this as-is, knowing it may require some further 
>> fixups? At least it does work better than before.
> From my point of view this is OK. And if you are actually working on
> this, then there is little danger. We will not remove a board that is
> visibly actively being maintained,
OK - I will proceed that route. I think I can clean this up for
submission during the next weekend.

cu
Michael