[U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: bootm.c: drop obsolete Qemu specific bootm implementation

[Gabor Juhos]

Hi Daniel,

> From: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com>
> 
> The Qemu specific bootm implementation was intended for a special
> Qemu target in Linux kernel. But this target has been dropped in
> v2.6.25-rc1 by commit 302922e5f6901eb6f29c58539631f71b3d9746b8
> 
>     Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
>     Date:   Tue Jan 29 10:15:02 2008 +0000
> 
>     [MIPS] Qemu: Remove platform.
> 
>     The Qemu platform was originally implemented to have an easily supportable
>     platform until Qemu reaches a state where it emulates a real world system.
>     Since the latest release Qemu is capable of emulating the MIPSsim and
>     Malta platforms, so this goal has been reached.  The Qemu plaform is also
>     rather underfeatured so less useful than a Malta emulation.
> 
> Thus the special bootm implementation is obsolete by now and can be
> dropped. The Qemu support in U-Boot should be converted to MIPS Malta
> to support booting of Linux kernels.

After this change, the qemu-mips board support will be broken, so the whole
qemu-mips stuff should be removed with the same change IMHO. Alternatively, this
should be kept until the qemu-malta support is not ready.

-Gabor