[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/7] m68k: remove arch/m68k/lib/board.c

[Angelo Dureghello]

Hi Masahiro,

On 25/03/2015 04:20, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Angelo,
>
>
> 2015-03-17 15:55 GMT+09:00 Angelo Dureghello <angelo at sysam.it>:
>> On 17/03/2015 04:35, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>
>>> All the M68000 boards have switched to Generic Board.
>>> This file is no longer necessary.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Masahiro,
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> Afaik, me and Alison converted and tested actually only 2 boards
>> (adding #define CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD inside /include/configs/...)
>>
>> Is this a problem ?  Afaik, the user going to build the board
>> will get a warning that he needs to switch to generic board.
>> So the same user will be the tester that all works. Correct ?
>
> As a rule of generic board, people are supposed to do run-test
> and then send a patch.
>
>
> BTW, M68K is the last architecture that adopts per-board linker script.
>
> M68K should switch to per-soc linker scripts like the other architecures.
> It means all the followings should be merged into the single linker script
> arch/m68k/cpu/u-boot.lds.
>
> board/freescale/m52277evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5235evb/u-boot.lds
> board/cobra5272/u-boot.lds
> board/BuS/eb_cpu5282/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5208evbe/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5249evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5253demo/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5272c3/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5275evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5282evb/u-boot.lds
> board/sysam/amcore/u-boot.lds
> board/astro/mcf5373l/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m53017evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5329evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m5373evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m54418twr/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m54451evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m54455evb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m547xevb/u-boot.lds
> board/freescale/m548xevb/u-boot.lds
>
>

>
> Is this possible for you?  (or for someone else?)

Sure, i look into this.
I start from checking what are the differences.


>
> If there is no volunteer, it would be much easier to remove all the M68K boards
> except the two you and Alison can maintain.
>
> Maintain or Remove!
>

Best regards
Angelo