[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] dm: Removal of some boards due to DM_MMC deadline

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 02:08:14PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 13:03, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 13:36, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > + Peng, the new MMC maintainer
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 01:23:45PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > >
> > > > This series starts the process of removing boards which have not been
> > > > converted to driver model for MMC.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry, no.  Like I've been saying in the SPI thread, and I thought I
> > > had made clear elsewhere:
> > > - This release we move the drivers to depend on BROKEN.  Jagan has a
> > >   patch right now that makes BROKEN make another warning happen, but I'm
> > >   not 100% sure I like this, but also haven't had a chance to try my
> > >   idea of just removing the driver from the build and seeing if the
> > >   boards link, or how hard making them link again is.
> > > - Next release we can remove the _drivers_ that depend on BROKEN.
> >
> > Sorry I must have missed this, have had very little time in the past
> > few months. I did see mention of BROKEN elsewhere but had somehow not
> > made the connection.
> >
> > Could we get a note added to MIGRATION.txt perhaps?
> >
> > >
> > > Yes, this will result in a bunch of boards that aren't nearly so
> > > functional as they would be expected to be.  This in turn might lead to:
> > > - Someone stepping up as they care about the hardware
> > > - Removing of the boards down the line when it's clear no one has been
> > >   using them as there's a big window where generally key drivers aren't
> > >   there anymore.
> >
> > Sounds like a great plan, and much better and easier than removal
> > (which is a real pain to create patches for).
> 
> I've hit a snag though. s32v234evb doesn't even support
> CONFIG_OF_CONTROL. What should we do in that case?

This falls, sadly, into the same category as what to do about large
swaths of PowerPC, and then some other architectures entirely.

-- 
Tom
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