[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] PPC: remove support for MPC82xx processors

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Holger,

In message <52D67C60.2040401 at keymile.com> you wrote:
> 
> > 1) We apply the patch as is, and if you really have to modify your
> >    code you would do this out-of-tree based on the last frozen
> >    version.
> > 
> 
> yes we could do that and keep a seperate branch for this board, but I don't like
> this. I guess I don't need to explain why I would like to avoid an additional
> branch on our site.

Fully understood.  If you can foresee another two years of active use
this is a perfectly valid reason not to remove this file.   Sorry I
missed this in the beginning...

> > 2) I rework the patch to remove only the MPC826x / MPC828x code.
> 
> honestly this would be my favorite approach.

Tom - how much time is there left for me to do that?

> So if keeping 82xx support would't generate to much overload for u-boot I would
> appreciate to keep it. But if it interferes with future u-boot development we
> could also move it to a keymile specific branch.

Do you agree with "keeping 824x" support only?

> And just out of curiosity. Why do you keep still 8xx board support? Is this more
> in use then 82xx? This is suprising to me.

You are asking a heretical question! ;-)

8xx is where it all started - U-Boot was anteceded by the PPCBoot
project, which started as 8xxrom - some 15 years ago...  Ripping this
out of U-Boot would just break my heart...

Seriously, when the 8xx code is starting to make similar problems like
82xx is doing now, we will probably come to the same conclusions
(allthough my heart would be bleeding) but so far everything is fine -
individual boards breakage (like TOP860 with gcc 4.8) excluded.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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