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

[Tom Rini]

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On 09/19/12 15:49, Graeme Russ wrote:
> 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, 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 know, bad words) but
> at least if someone comes along with an actual board, they have a
> place to start. 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.

... and lots of strong opinions follow.  Which is why I wanted a
separate thread (so more folks see it) and we start from what I hope
is a reasoned approach we can all mostly agree on :)

- -- 
Tom

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