[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] sunxi: Remove board defconfig-s for specific Q8 tablet PCB-s

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Sat Oct 3 10:27:27 CEST 2015


Hi,

On 01-10-15 16:27, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 14:54 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> We now have generic q8_a?3_defconfig files for Q8 formfactor tablets with
>> an A13 / A23 / A33 SoC, there is no need for these PCB variant specific
>> defconfig-s and they only serve to confuse the user.
>>
>> Note that in case of the forfun_q88db_defconfig and TZX-Q8
>> -713B7_defconfig
>> for A13 based Q8 tablets there is not even a dts file for these in the
>> upstream kernel, which is all the more reason to remove them.
>>
>> The generic q8_a?3_defconfig files have been tested on an Et_q8_v1_6,
>> Ippo_q8h_v1_2_a33_1024x600, Ippo_q8h_v1_2 and TZX-Q8-713B7 tablet, and
>> the
>> forfun_q88db_defconfig is identical to q8_a13_tablet_defconfig.
>>
>> This leaves only the Ippo_q8h_v5 untested with the new generic defconfigs
>> but there is no reason to assume that it will not work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> Note this patch is intended for u-boot v2016.01, not v2015.10, the plan
>> is to remove this defconfigs from v2016.01 and then at some date after
>> v2016.01 has been released remove the matching dts files from the kernel.
>
> Sounds reasonable. both patches in this series:
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>

Thanks, I've taken the liberty of using your hellion email address for this
instead.

Regards,

Hans


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