[PATCH 14/25] arm: Remove sheevaplug board

[Harm Berntsen]

On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 15:06 -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:09:56PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, at 8:57 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > > On 2021-02-10, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > > I have not recently (since before 2019) done anything more than
> > > > allow
> > > > aptitude to upgrade packages as it thinks best.  In particular, I
> > > > have
> > > > not made any attempt to burn new firmware on the device.
> > > 
> > > The debian u-boot packages do not automatically upgrade the u-boot
> > > installed to the device; it requires manual intervention on the
> > > part of
> > > the system administrator above and beyond just upgrading the debian
> > > packages through apt, aptitude, etc.
> > > 
> > > I think u-boot upstream is talking about dropping it for 2021.04,
> > > so my
> > > guess is you would still have another entire debian release cycle
> > > with
> > > the available 2021.01 version of u-boot *if* that version still
> > > works...
> > 
> > If you can point me to instructions for doing that manual
> > intervention, I'll be happy to test whatever version you recommend, 
> > I
> > hope the instructions also include how to recover if it *doesn't*
> > work!
> 
> I think this unfortunately gets to the heart of the problem.  We need
> someone that cares about the platform to step up and do the
> maintenance.
> Most of the work shouldn't be too hard and there's examples of many
> previous conversions.  The mvsata_ide driver is probably the hardest
> part but I think it just means that the ide_preinit() call needs to be
> worked in to the new ide_probe() function rather than the old
> ide_init().
> 

I have just converted the MMC driver (mmc_mvebu) to the driver model
and that works on my Kirkwood based board (not a sheevaplug though).
I'll run it through my GitLab CI and submit it to the mailing list
soon.

Would MMC support be enough to keep this board in U-Boot? If I
understand Tom correctly the only non-DM driver is the IDE driver.
Would it be an option to keep the Sheevaplug board without IDE support
(unless someone submits a driver)? I do not own a Sheevaplug and thus I
am not familiar with it. I suppose it could also boot from MMC.