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

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Simon,


2015-08-22 2:53 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> 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?

No, cam_enc_4xx is the last one I wanted to remove
(and Tom picked up the removal patch).

So, I am satisfied.


> 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.

Yes, I think arch/powerpc/lib/board.c should be deleted
after my series is applied.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada