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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Lukasz,

On 4 April 2014 04:09, Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski at samsung.com> wrote:

> Hi Marek,
>
> > On Thursday, April 03, 2014 at 09:01:30 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Unfortunately, it isn't a simple switch in my case.
>
> The
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD on the trats2 (and probably also
> trats) board causes problem with power management initialization. I
> will not be able to fix this and validate before v2014.04.
>
> This issue will be fixed after the release.
>

FWIW this works OK on exynos5 which has used generic board for a while. I'm
not sure what the problem is - I don't see a change in the ordering of the
call to power_init().

Regards,
Simon