[U-Boot] Remove sh2, sh3, sh4 architecture?

[Kieran Bingham]

On 15 May 2016 at 00:19, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 18 October 2015 at 10:19, Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>> 2015-10-19 0:54 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:30:43AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>> 2015-10-18 21:19 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > It looks like these have no maintainer and have not been converted to
>>>> > generic board. Should we remove the 'sh' architecture?
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards,
>>>> > Simon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The maintainer, Nobuhiro, was at the U-Boot mini summit,
>>>> but, indeed, no work for SH these days.
>>>>
>>>> Since he left Renesas and went back to Hitachi,
>>>> he is now a complete volunteer, I guess.
>>>>
>>>> If the maintainer responsibility is painful for him,
>>>> he can take a step back, but I hope he can continue contribution...
>>>> Nobuhiro?
>>>
>>> I'd hate to see SH2 leave since it's becoming the J-Core architecture..
>>> Perhaps someone in the community would like to help out too?
>>
>> Agree.  Jeff talked about that at Dublin.
>>
>
> I haven't seen any activity. Does anyone have an update?

Hi Simon,

Yes - there is definitely activity. Jeff and Rob presented again at
ELC, San Diego, and gave out dev-boards (I have one) - and they are
starting a kick-starter project to get a RasperryPi form factor board
out with an FPGA to run the cores / development.

There is a working kernel and toolchain. I'd certainly hope U-Boot
support could be used in the future too.

http://j-core.org/roadmap.html is probably the most up-to-date plan
there is currently.

The current dev-board (a Numato FPGA) doesn't have USB or Ethernet,
but does have an SD Card, Perhaps uboot doesn't give much added value
there currently- but when the Kickstarter board comes out (there are
10 prototypes in existence already) that will have both USB and Eth -
so U-Boot will have much more appeal!

--
Regards

KIeran


>
> Regards,
> Simon
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