[U-Boot] Nokia RX-51: Use generic board

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 03:49:08PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Friday 30 January 2015 15:19:53 Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > Generic board with #define CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD is
> > > working fine. There is no visible difference between legacy
> > > and generic board code.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com>
> > > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
> > 
> > Applied to u-boot-ti/master, thanks!
> 
> Tom, or anybody else, in future when you are going to change some 
> parts in u-boot and remove boards which do not convert in time... 
> please can you contact me about it (via email, I see that contact 
> info in file board/nokia/rx51/MAINTAINERS is correct)? I'm not 
> following u-boot ML and I really did not know that conversion to 
> generic board code is required before end of last year...
> 
> Basically Maemo users & developers use uboot v2013.04 version and 
> for Nokia N900 there is no new functionality in new uboot 
> versions. So there is nothing like "new features & fixed bugs" 
> motivation.
> 
> But I do not want to see n900 board code removed from uboot as 
> uboot bootloader is for n900 really useful (most for end-users 
> who does not even know about existence of git, uboot ML, etc).

Before we do the (very soon now, -rc1 comes Monday) nuking, any board
with a MAINTAINERS will get a CC, yes.  But I expect MAINTAINERS to do
some sort of sanity test at least once every few releases, especially
since we have a regular release cycle.

-- 
Tom
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