[U-Boot] Orphan Freescale PowerPC boards

[york sun]

On 05/09/2017 08:52 AM, York Sun wrote:
> 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.
>

I will pick up the ownership of MPC8555CDS, MPC8641HPCN, MPC8541CDS, and 
drop the support of MPC8540ADS and MPC8560ADS.

It is not clear who will maintain mpc83xx, and other orphan boards. In 
2015, Sinan Akman offered to maintain mpc83xx. The discussion didn't 
yield any result.

York