[U-Boot] Start the deprecation process for generic board

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:35:10AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
> On 3 April 2014 11:03, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday, March 28, 2014 at 10:16:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 05:14:51PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > We should move forward to remove the old board init code. Add a
> > > > prominent message to encourage maintainers to get started on this
> > > > work.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >
> > > Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
> >
> > It's now -rc3 , MW is long closed and my board start generating a warning.
> > Even
> > worse, all boards now generate this warning and I'm worried that this will
> > cause
> > the more attentive maintainers to take action and produce fast fixes which
> > won't
> > receive sufficient testing until release is out.
> >
> > I seriously disagree with applying the patch for current release.
> >
> 
> Despite the fact that it has been ~1 year and not a lot of people have
> taken action, I didn't actually expect it to go in right away, and I'm fine
> with a revert for this release if that's what Tom decides. But let's get it
> moving ASAP.
> 
> Also let me know if there are any questions about how to test. I wrote up a
> README in the patch, but am happy to expand it as things come up.

So, Marek and I were discussing this on IRC as well.  Given about a year
and nothing converted (except for new things) I opted for the noisier
approach.  It really is a simple switch and for the record, if distro
people would be so kind as to switch it on and report back that nothing
happens, that'd be really helpful too.

-- 
Tom
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