[U-Boot] Orphan Freescale PowerPC boards

[York Sun]

On 05/09/2017 08:49 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:46:46AM -0700, York Sun wrote:
>> On 05/09/2017 05:36 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:19:37PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>> Hi York,
>>>>
>>>> I see some orphan boards under board/freescale directory.
>>>>
>>>> $ find board/freescale -name MAINTAINERS | xargs grep Orphan
>>>> board/freescale/mpc8555cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>> board/freescale/mpc8641hpcn/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>> board/freescale/mpc8540ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>> board/freescale/mpc8541cds/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>> board/freescale/mx31ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2013-09)
>>>> board/freescale/m5253evbe/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>> board/freescale/mpc8560ads/MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan (since 2014-06)
>>>>
>>>> Will you pick up the maintainership if you want to keep them?
>>>
>>> Related to that, there's also mpc83xx support, do you wish to pick that
>>> up?  Thanks!
>>
>> What options do I have? They are really old boards.
>
> Well, if you don't want to pick them up, we can drop them.  If someone
> later wants to support them, they can step up.
>

Let me ask our FAEs to see if there is any customer using these boards. 
If not, and nobody in this community cares them, we can drop them.

York