Am 02/03/2011 08:27 PM, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
Dear Michael Schwingen,
In message 4D4ACBA0.9030607@discworld.dascon.de you wrote:
Note that still a large number of ARM boards are broken. I hope many people join the efforts and fix all the currently broken boards. Thanks in advance to everybody who lends a helping hand.
What is the time frame?
The original entry in doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt said:
Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are considered unmaintained and without interest for the community and will be removed as well.
Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC has already been dropped, which makes the problem obvious, but the time frame remains: boards that are not working after v2011.03 has been released are treated as wolfsheads i. e. may be killed on sight by anybody who submits such a patch.
Of course, you can still object to such patches, but then you will probably be asked to provide fixes to make the respective board working before the end of the merge window.
Sorry, unclear wording on my part - I meant "what is the timeframe to submit the final version of the patches for inclusion into the current release".
This works fine for configuration, and I can dump and modify memory (eg. the bootrom on a E1000 card), but I can't get any of the ethernet drivers to work - possibly due to endian issues, but this might take some time to sort out.
Would it be OK to commit this as-is, knowing it may require some further fixups? At least it does work better than before.
From my point of view this is OK. And if you are actually working on this, then there is little danger. We will not remove a board that is visibly actively being maintained,
OK - I will proceed that route. I think I can clean this up for submission during the next weekend.
cu Michael