[U-Boot] Generic Board Progress

Michal Simek monstr at monstr.eu
Mon Sep 29 15:23:39 CEST 2014


Hi Masahiro,

On 09/29/2014 10:55 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 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<--------------------------------------------

I have Microblaze patches in progress. Just don't have time to finish it but
hopefully I will have move information soon.

Thanks,
Michal


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