[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 16/19] arm926ejs: Remove deprecated and now unused NAND SPL

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Albert,

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:04:54 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:

> Hi Benoît,
> 
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:51:37 +0100 (CET), Benoît Thébaudeau
> <benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Albert, Tom, Zhong,
> > 
> > On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:54:22 PM, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com>
> > > ---
> > > Changes in v7: None
> > > Changes in v6:
> > >  - New patch.
> > > 
> > > Changes in v5: None
> > > Changes in v4: None
> > > Changes in v3: None
> > > Changes in v2: None
> > > 
> > >  arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S |   10 ----------
> > >  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > I would like to get your feedback regarding the status of the Samsung SMDK6400
> > board:
> >  - It is not in boards.cfg, so, according to commit 1285a28, support for it
> >    should already have been removed a long time ago. It also seems to be the
> >    only board remaining in the main Makefile.
> >  - It uses the deprecated NAND SPL.
> >  - MAKEALL does not test its build, which has been broken for a while.
> >  - If it were removed or fixed, ARM1176's start.S' relocate_code() could be made
> >    identical to all the other implementations of this function, so all this
> >    duplicated code could be moved to a common location like crt0.S. Besides
> >    that, it would be possible to completely get rid of the legacy NAND SPL on
> >    ARM.
> > 
> > I have no intention of fixing this board, but dropping it and cleaning up ARM
> > after that would be easy.
> 
> Cc:ing the board maintainers, as they should be the first ones to be
> asked whether they intend to bring the board into boards.cfg and fix
> it, or whether it should be dropped.

Scratch this: correct maintainer CC:ed now (how about changing the
MAINTAINERS file format so that we can tell for sure without having to 
ceck the first entry?)

> > Best regards,
> > Benoît
> 
> Amicalement,


Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.