PowerPC progress

[Dan Malek]

Hi Simon.

> On Aug 3, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 12:54, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:43:59PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Tom,
>>> 
>>> I do see some progress with PowerPC migration but it seems to be very
>>> behind. I notice that it is often PowerPC code that gets in the way or
>>> refactoring and cleaning up.
>>> 
>>> Could we get a progress update on this please? I cc'd the maintainers
>>> that are mentioned in the code. I do worry at the effort it is taking
>>> to keep all this old code in the tree.
>> 
>> Which particular area are you worried about currently?  I believe we've
>> had another good sized removal of PowerPC platforms and everything
>> that's left is what's wanted and being further migrated and updated.
> 
> It's hard to be specific, but these come to mind:
> 
> - Loads of CONFIG options still not in Kconfig
> - asm/u-boot seems to include a huge array of headers
> - code style not up-to-date - e.g. printf (xxx) instead of printf(xxx)
> - lots of migration warnings

I still have a few old boards, I’ll see what is still functional and jump in to assist.
If we want to revive 82xx, as Wolfgang mentioned, I can probably do that as well.

The list above is helpful to get started.

Thanks.

	— Dan