[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] arm: Enable CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD for all boards

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On 19 August 2015 at 19:36, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> 2015-08-19 13:35 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>> All boards should be converted to generic board by now. Change the rest
>> over. If this causes run-time breakages then we can remove those boards.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
>
> With this, we will lose reason to drop old unmaintained boards
> that might be an obstacle for our further cleanup.
> (for example, per-board config.mk, per-board linker script)
>
> The next chance to drop unmaintained boards is the end of 2016,
> where non-DM boards will be dropped.
> At that point, I guess most of maintainers would choose removal
> rather than conversion as the DM conversion requires much work.
>
> BTW, we will never notice run-time breakages because such
> unmaintaned boards are never run.
>
> I am not opposed to this patch, but bofore it is applied,
> I'd like to drop one more board.
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/508887/
> This is now applicable because Heiko, the maintainer of this board,
> gave acked-by.

Yes I agree, this is a drawback. My objective is to get rid of
arch/arm/lib/board.c. Are there any other pending patches for ARM
board removal, or are you planning to send some?

Also, I believe that PowerPC will be fully converted once your latest
series is applied (although I see a lot of boards converted at the
last moment). So can we remove arch/powerpc/lib/board.c, etc.? We
should try to get that done during this release too I think. I'm happy
to do a patch.

Regards,
Simon