On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:08:48AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Simon Guinot wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 07:16:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Simon,
On 31 August 2015 at 01:51, Simon Guinot simon.guinot@sequanux.org wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:18:57PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
These boards have not been converted to generic board by the deadline. Remove all except edmini_v2 (which has been converted).
Hi Simon,
Great... Is it still time to convert this boards to "generic board" support ?
Yes if you are quick - please see doc/README.generic-board which has instructions. It should be very simple.
OK. It is done.
You know, a direct email (I mean with my email address in the To or Cc fields) to make me aware of this project would have been both fair and very appreciated.
OK well I'm sorry you haven't seen anything up until now. I wonder if we should cc all the maintainers when we have an announcement that affects their boards. There are a lot of maintainers though!
The result of the current process is a patch series which removes support for a _lot_ of boards. It can't be correct. Moreover the conversion work consists in adding a single define. I think it would be far better to add the missing define for all this boards rather than kicking them out.
So, I understand your frustration. I thought we had sent out an email or two to board maintainers at various points about this conversion (which has been going on for over 2 years, and a single line change for at least a year, pretty much everywhere) but it looks like some boards slipped through the cracks and didn't get emailed.
But it's also been a bit over 2 years and I'm pretty sure that at least 3 or 4 times in my release emails I've said "we're going to delete boards that aren't converted, please convert and test!".
So yes, Simon first made a series to blind-convert the straglers but then we decided to delete instead as this is a good test for how interested people are in the hardware and if we can drop some code that will make other conversions which are going on now easier too.
I understand. Thanks for the explanation.
Simon