[U-Boot] CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD status

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hello Wolfgang,


Recently I dumped several mpc8xx, mpc82xx etc. boards
which had been orphaned or without maintainers.

Are there any other (almost) hopeless boards?

Those boards without generic-board conversion
will be removed sooner or later.

If more unmaintained boards could be dropped earlier,
that would lead to our easier life, I think.

(Please don't get me wrong.
I understand u-boot started with PowerPC, especially 8xx
and they are special for you.
I don't want to break your heart by deleting the old boards.
If you are willing to maintain them (= keep up with global changes),
that's no problem.
But if not, they should be dumped at some point.)


Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada


On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 21:38:17 +1000
Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> According to my calculations, as of commit 80a7cac we now have more
> than 238 boards converted to generic board, out of 1171. That is a
> little over 20%, which is a big improvement from last release. I am
> unable to include MIPS or ARM64 so it is an under-estimate.
> 
> 
> ./tools/buildman/buildman -b dm3b --step 0 -k
> 
> grep -l CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD
> dm3b/01_of_93_g80a7cac0_Merge-branch-\'tom\'-o/*/autoconf.mk |\wc -l
> 238
> 
> Regards,
> Simon