[U-Boot] Is EP88x board dead or not?

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Masahiro,

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:30:56 +0900, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:

> Hello Wolfgang
> 
> 
> You deleted the EP88x entry in boards.cfg
> at the following commit
> 
> 
> commit 1b0757eceddf037aad99ab59217a3a5c215e15d1
> Author: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Date:   Wed Oct 24 02:36:15 2012 +0000
> 
>     PPC: remove dead boards (AMX860, c2mon, ETX094, IAD210, LANTEC, SCM)
>     
>     These boards have long reached EOL, and there has been no indication
>     of any active users of such hardware for years.  Get rid of the dead
>     weight.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
>     Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg at denx.de>
> 
> 
> 
> You only mentioned about AMX860, c2mon, ETX094, IAD210, LANTEC, SCM in commit log.
> But you also deleted EP88x.
> 
> 
> I suspect you accidentally deleted the entry of EP88x in boards.cfg
> because:
> 
>  - EP88x is not found in doc/README.scrapyard
>  - include/configs/EP88x.h is remaining
>  - board/ep88x/  is remaining
>  - I could successfully build EP88x by simply re-adding entry to boards.cfg

(Wolfgang, correct me if I am wrong)

I cannot tell indeed if Wolfgang's removal of ep88x was intentional or
not, but two things are sure: prior to its removal by Wolfgang, EP88x
did not have any MAINTAINERS entry; and since it was removed, you are
the first one to notice.

I would therefore say that if you want EP88x re-introduced, then please
step up as the new board maintainer by adding your e-mail address in
boards.cfg -- and please do it only if you actually have an EP88x board
to test on.

If you don't have an EP88x, or do not plan to be a maintainer for it,
and if no one else does either, then the best is to remove it entirely.

> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.