[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/16] ARM: remove vpac270 board support

[Marek Vasut]

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 05:58:17 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2015-07-26 17:49 GMT+09:00 Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>:
> > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 10:26:45 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> The board-specific linker script board/vpac270/u-boot-spl.lds
> >> obstructs further cleanup.  This board has not been converted to
> >> Generic Board yet in spite of the long-term warning.  Remove.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> >> ---
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> >> Marek,
> >> 
> >> If you want to keep this board:
> >>   - Please convert it to Generic Board
> >>   - Please use arch-common linker script
> > 
> > Yeah, I want to keep this board, but please give me a bit of time
> > to do this. This one and the zipitz2 are the two PXA boards which
> > I have and want to keep.
> > 
> > I recall the u-boot-spl.lds was really needed to keep the size of
> > the SPL under 1kiB ; without this the board was unbootable when
> > using the OneNAND.
> 
> I will drop this patch when I send v2.
> 
> 
> BTW, I tried building vpac270 ONENAND.
> It is already over 1kiB.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> $ git describe
> v2015.07-307-g2647394
> $ make vpac270_ond_256_defconfig
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
> $ make -s CROSS_COMPILE=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-
> ===================== WARNING ======================
> Please convert this board to generic board.
> Otherwise it will be removed by the end of 2014.
> See doc/README.generic-board for further information
> ====================================================
> $ ls -l spl/u-boot-spl.bin
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 2828 Jul 28 00:53 spl/u-boot-spl.bin
> 
> 
> 
> It is over 2KB.

So the hardware spilt already? Aww :-(

I wonder, maybe converting this to TPL might be the correct solution ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut