[U-Boot] [PATCH 32/71] serial: powerpc: Implement CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI into bmw serial driver

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Scott Wood,

> On 09/19/2012 05:57:56 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Graeme Russ,
> > 
> > > Hi Tom,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> > > > A more elaborate set of statements on my feelings about "old"
> > 
> > boards
> > 
> > > > and what needs to happen, in light of the facts that the code is
> > > > messy, will require updating for DM and likelyhood of a small but
> > > > devoted community around some of them.
> > > 
> > > My gut feeling on this is to either move unmaintained / inactive
> > > boards to a separate board directory
> > 
> > And hoard crap? No, you can dig them from git history, the objects
> > will still be
> > there.
> > 
> > > or add a flag to boards.cfg (If
> > > we add a flag to boards.cfg then we can specify that MAKEALL should
> > > skip those boards)
> > > 
> > > Either way, we can then let them bit-rot
> > 
> > I disagree
> > 
> > > (I know, bad words) but at
> > > least if someone comes along with an actual board, they have a place
> > > to start.
> > 
> > They can retrieve it from git history and re-add it in such unlikely
> > case.
> > 
> > > This is what happened to me with the x86 arch - the existing
> > > code was horribly broken, but at least I had a solid foundation to
> > > start reinvigorating it.
> > 
> > It's still horribly broken, but that's partly because of x86 itself
> > is a
> > horribly broken CPU :-)
> 
> Maybe have a GRAVEYARD file that lists hardware support and other
> notable features that have been removed, so it's easy for someone to
> tell whether digging through the git history might be fruitful.

Like doc/README.scrapyard ?

> -Scott

Best regards,
Marek Vasut