[U-Boot] U-Boot PXA support

[Alex Sadovsky]

On 21/05/2019, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> On 5/21/19 11:50 AM, Alex Sadovsky wrote:
>> It's slightly off-topic but I wonder whether this ongoing deprecation
>> of ARMv4 and ARMv5 (first in GCC, then in U-Boot) really simplifies
>> anything at all.
>> There are tons of devices that are still working good and there are
>> even ARMv5-based MCUs that are still produced (such as CH561
>> manufactured by WCH).
>>
>> IMHO it makes sense to drop only the XScale-specific tuning first and
>> to treat PXA (and similar CPUs) as a more generic armv5te. I wonder
>> what to do when GCC drops ARMv5 completely...
>
> Do you want to step up and help maintain these platforms ?
> The real problem is maintainer overload and that's what this solves, it
> reduces the workload on maintainers. The legacy code needs to be updated
> and retested, and it seems there's just no interest in that. If there is
> someone who's willing to stick around for some time and take care of
> those platforms, great.
Of course I understand the maintainers' load. If PXA support (or
anything other that I'm using) is an obstacle in its current form and
should be fixed (e.g. ported to newer APIs), I have interest in
providing patches to fix it. You can always Cc: me in case of
ARMv5/PXA-related questions, although I can test only the hardware
that I have (probably this comment was too obvious).

My point was about pro-active removal (i.e. removal of the code that
isn't a definite obstacle yet) and about judging about the code
usefulness only by the age of last changes (there are somehow stable
things after all).

Of course I'm not against the removal of such things that are broken
&& nobody fixes them for some time.