[PATCH 34/35] doc: Move generic-board documentation into rst
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Wed Jul 24 17:09:21 CEST 2024
This information is useful for people looking at how U-Boot has changed
over the years and the design decisions which led to it. Move it into
doc/ in an 'historical' section.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
.../historical/generic_board.rst} | 16 ++++++++--------
doc/develop/historical/index.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
doc/develop/index.rst | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
rename doc/{README.generic-board => develop/historical/generic_board.rst} (96%)
create mode 100644 doc/develop/historical/index.rst
diff --git a/doc/README.generic-board b/doc/develop/historical/generic_board.rst
similarity index 96%
rename from doc/README.generic-board
rename to doc/develop/historical/generic_board.rst
index bc35179fbfd..6711d3d7a89 100644
--- a/doc/README.generic-board
+++ b/doc/develop/historical/generic_board.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
-#
-# (C) Copyright 2014 Google, Inc
-# Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+.. (C) Copyright 2014 Google, Inc
+.. sectionauthor:: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
-Background
-----------
+Generic board
+-------------
U-Boot traditionally had a board.c file for each architecture. This introduced
quite a lot of duplication, with each architecture tending to do
@@ -16,7 +15,7 @@ All boards and architectures have moved to this as of mid 2016.
What has changed?
------------------
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The main change is that the arch/<arch>/lib/board.c file is removed in
favour of common/board_f.c (for pre-relocation init) and common/board_r.c
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ have been moved to separate structures.
Further Background
-------------------
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The full text of the original generic board series is reproduced below.
@@ -132,4 +131,5 @@ convenience.
Simon Glass, sjg at chromium.org
March 2014
+
Updated after final removal, May 2016
diff --git a/doc/develop/historical/index.rst b/doc/develop/historical/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e4462f5d2a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/develop/historical/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+Historical Documents
+====================
+
+This section provides documentation about major changes in U-Boot over the
+years.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ generic_board
diff --git a/doc/develop/index.rst b/doc/develop/index.rst
index c0107a783fc..0d0e60ab56c 100644
--- a/doc/develop/index.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/index.rst
@@ -99,3 +99,11 @@ Code quality
:maxdepth: 1
python_cq
+
+Historical documentation
+------------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ historical/index
--
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