[PATCH 14/25] arm: Remove sheevaplug board

[Rick Thomas]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, at 12:15 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:09:06PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> > If you decide to do this, please make sure you advertise it more
> > widely than just this list.
> > 
> > I have a sheevaplug that I'd be sad to have to decommission.  For the
> > last decade, with never a complaint, it's been happily  serving DHCP,
> > DNS, and NTP to about 20 machines in my home network.  I like it
> > because the slightly unusual architecture makes it slightly less
> > attractive as a target to the bad-guys out there.
> > 
> > Maybe I'll replace it with a Raspberry Pi.
> 
> I'm quite happy to keep the board, if someone will step up and maintain
> it.  It's had the initial conversion to DM done, but it needs a number
> of others still.  Almost all of the drivers it uses have been converted
> already (the IDE driver being the exception).
> 
> I assume that however you're building U-Boot the warnings that get
> printed about conversion deadlines having come and gone are hidden in
> some way or another.

Sad to say, I don't have the skills to step up and maintain it myself.  Though I'll be happy to participate in the effort as a willing (nay, eager) tester of new versions.  I've got a second sheevaplug sitting on a shelf that somehow bricked itself about 5-7 years ago.  I'd love to try to resurrect it, if somebody can point me to instructions for re-flashing the firmware.  If I can get it running, it will be perfect for use as a testing machine.

Thanks!
Rick