[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform

[Michal Simek]

Hi,

On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello Michal and Stefan
> 
> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.

I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
removed.
There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
is obsolete from my point of view.

> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
> the support?

Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.

> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine

I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.

> The xilinx git tree still supports this boards,  will you also remove
> support there?

I am following mainline. It means removing board in mainline is
resulting removing the board in xilinx trees.

Thanks,
Michal