U-Boot CONFIG_DM_SERIAL migration deadline

[Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi]

Hi Tom

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 7:01 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 06:58:50PM +0200, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 5:18 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > I'm sending this email out to the main and custodian lists, and bcc'ing
> > > all of the listed maintainers for platforms that have a problem here.
> > > The migration deadline for switching from CONFIG_SERIAL to
> > > CONFIG_DM_SERIAL is the v2023.04 release. Now, per how I've behaved in
> > > the past, I'm not going to immediately remove these platforms. But it
> > > would be very good to jump on migrating them now, rather than waiting
> > > further. The full list (at least in so far as our Makefile check can
> > > determine) is:
> > > SBx81LIFKW SBx81LIFXCAT pogo_e02 pogo_v4 dns325 iconnect d2net_v2
> > > net2big_v2 inetspace_v2 netspace_lite_v2 netspace_max_v2
> > > netspace_mini_v2 netspace_v2 dreamplug guruplug openrd_base
> > > openrd_client openrd_ultimate sheevaplug ib62x0 dockstar goflexhome
> > > nas220 ds109 nsa310s mx23evk mx28evk imx28_xea imx28_xea_sb
> > > mx23_olinuxino vexpress_ca9x4 am43xx_evm_qspiboot am43xx_hs_evm_qspi
> > > ti816x_evm vinco bcm7260 bcm7445 ls1021aiot_qspi ls1021aiot_sdcard
> > > ls1021aqds_nand ls1021aqds_nor_SECURE_BOOT ls1021aqds_qspi
> > > ls1021aqds_sdcard_ifc ls1021aqds_sdcard_qspi ls1021atsn_qspi
> > > ls1021atsn_sdcard ls1021atwr_nor_SECURE_BOOT ls1021atwr_qspi
> > > ls1021atwr_sdcard_ifc ls1021atwr_sdcard_ifc_SECURE_BOOT
> > > ls1021atwr_sdcard_qspi mx51evk mx53loco usbarmory m53menlo udoo
> > > wandboard mx6qsabrelite nitrogen6dl nitrogen6dl2g nitrogen6q
> > > nitrogen6q2g nitrogen6s nitrogen6s1g imx6dl_mamoj dh_imx6 marsboard
> > > riotboard imx6dl_icore_nand imx6q_icore_nand imx6qdl_icore_mipi
> > > imx6qdl_icore_mmc imx6qdl_icore_nand imx6qdl_icore_rqs imx6ul_geam_mmc
> > > imx6ul_geam_nand imx6ul_isiot_emmc imx6ul_isiot_nand mx6memcal
> >
> > We should take care of engicam boards. I will ask jagan if we have all of them
>
> As you're the first person to speak up about an i.MX family of boards,
> this is one of the cases where I really would like to see a solution at
> the SoC level.  I hope there's not a reason that all imx6* can't just
> enable DM_SERIAL at this point.  I really want to hope imx* can enable
> it, but it certainly needs to be sanity tested throughout the families.
>
> But yes, starting with moving all of the engicam boards over is better
> than not moving anything over, and I do understand not everyone is
> comfortable making wide sweeping changes they can't also test.
>

Well, I said that will help with this. I will check it out later. Last
time on imx8mn,
We drop few lines of code and rework the code in the board itself. I need to run
some test

Michael

> --
> Tom



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