[U-Boot] Generic Board Progress

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.



Analysis for the latest commit
(commit be9f643ae6aa9044c60fe80e3a2c10be8371c692).



[1] The number of converted boards
(based on the number of *_defconfig):

367  / 1194  = 30.7 %



[2] The number of architectures with generic board support:

8 / 15 = 53.3 %

Done:
ARC, ARM, Blackfin, MIPS, NIOS2, PowerPC, Sandbox, x86

Not Yet:
AVR32, M68K, MicroBlaze, NDS32, OpenRisc, SH, Sparc


[3] Dead line

doc/README.generic-board says:

----------------------------->8--------------------------------------------
DEPRECATION NOTICE FOR arch/<arch>/lib/board.c

For board maintainers: Please submit patches for boards you maintain before
July 2014, to make them use generic board.

For architecture maintainers: Please submit patches to remove your
architecture-specific board.c file before October 2014.
-----------------------------8<--------------------------------------------


It also says:
----------------------------->8--------------------------------------------
Boards or architectures not converted over to general board by the
end of 2014 may be forcibly changed over (potentially causing run-time
breakage) or removed.
-----------------------------8<--------------------------------------------



Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada