[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 00/28] Janitorial: powerpc: remove PowerPC non-generic boards

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Aug 13 17:13:06 CEST 2015


Hi Masahiro,

On 13 August 2015 at 09:12, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:15:18PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
>> PowerPC supports generic board framework, so all the PowerPC boards
>> should be converted(, otherwise removed).
>>
>> This is docmented in doc/README.generic-board, was announced in the ML
>> again and again, and warning messages have been displayed when such boards
>> are built.
>>
>> This series clears away all non-generic boards from PowerPC arch.
>>
>> I am sending it as RFC to give the board maintainers some time
>> to take appropriate action to keep the board support.
>>
>> If you want to keep them, please convert your board to Generic Board
>> (with run-test) and send a patch in two weeks.
>>
>> This is the _last_ call.
>> If you do not respend to this seris, it will be too late.
>>
>> I will send a non-RFC series at the end of August
>> to really delete boards that nobody would take any action.
>
> And I intend to take up that non-RFC series shortly after it's posted.
> Anything after that point can be brought back from the graveyard rather
> than still being in-tree.  Thanks Masahiro!

Thanks Masahiro for taking on this valuable work.

Regards,
Simon


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