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

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:04:10PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Holger,
> 
> In message <52D64089.6070207 at keymile.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > > This commit removes support for the Freescale MPC82xx Power
> > > Architecture processors, i. e. MPC8240, MPC8245, MPC8247, MPC8248,
> > > MPC8250, MPC8255, MPC8260, MPC8265, MPC8266, MPC8272, MPC8280, ...
> > > 
> > > They have been out of production for years, and no active users left
> > > here.  As some boards start causing problems, let's drop the obsolete
> > > and now dead code.
> > 
> > thats not valid for us. Our mgcoge3ne target which comes with a MPC8247 is still
> > in production and maintained. If you look at the git log of
> 
> Argh... Can you foresee how much longer this hardware is likely to be
> maintained?
> 
> > So isn't it possible to remove only the broken boards and keep the generic parts?
> 
> Yes, this would be possible, too.  But then, it appears you are the
> only remaining active user of MPC82xx.  OK, MPC8247 is actually still
> marked as "active" at Freescale, soory I missed that - the MPC824x
> types I checked were in "No Longer Manufactured" state.
> 
> The thing is that there are tons of interdependencies an #defines that
> need to be checked so we don't leave too many unused #defines and such
> around.
> 
> I see several options now:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 2) I rework the patch to remove only the MPC826x / MPC828x code.
> 
> 3) I rework the patch to remove only the broken boards - which are
>    these actually?
> 
> 
> Tom, what is your opinion here?

For this release, lets go with #3, which is already done (York grabbed
the patch to drop linkstation_HGLAN and that was the only FTB) and then
for the next release we can do #2 if there's no objections.

-- 
Tom
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20140115/7b714553/attachment.pgp>