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

[Pali Rohár]

On Friday 30 January 2015 17:09:48 Tom Rini wrote:
> 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.

Sanity test on n900 device means to build image and run it. And 
it is working. Because uboot write warning message to stdout and 
n900 screen (where is my stdout) is too small it is very early 
rewritten by next messages. And if error message is print before 
uboot set stdout to screen I was not able to read it. So I did 
not have to know about that warning... Do not remember that 
community members do not have special equipment for debugging 
early stage bootloader errors and also do not have special Nokia 
(TM) serial console cable, pins & handler...

I think it is better to CC maintainers immediately after you 
decide and create such warning and not one year later.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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