[U-Boot] Orphan Freescale PowerPC boards

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:57:57PM +0000, york sun wrote:
> 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.

I think we'll just drop mpc83xx then. Thanks for looking into this!

-- 
Tom
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