[PATCH 1/1] README: remove 'U-Boot Porting Guide' section

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Jan 28 23:01:20 CET 2023


Hi Heinrich,

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 02:17, Heinrich Schuchardt
<heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/26/23 00:49, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Heinrich,
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 12:00, Heinrich Schuchardt
> > <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This section does not match the standards of our documentation.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> >> ---
> >>   README | 74 ----------------------------------------------------------
> >>   1 file changed, 74 deletions(-)
> >>
> >
> > It seems fairly accurate to me, and includes some good advice.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon
>
> * That section tries to look funny. U-Boot is serious stuff.

Some people do have a sense of humour...but in any case it might be
better to reword it to meet your standards, rather than delete it?

> * The information is outdated. BDI3000 is not on sale,
> https://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual is no longer maintained.
> * It contains advice that we would prefer not to give like
>    email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?")
> * It is incomplete. You cannot introduce a new board without defconfig.
>
> An introduction chapter for new developers in doc/develop/ would be helpful.

OK, so how about updating it, then? Having nothing at all seems bad to me.

Regards,
Simon


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