On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, at 12:15 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:09:06PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
If you decide to do this, please make sure you advertise it more widely than just this list.
I have a sheevaplug that I'd be sad to have to decommission. For the last decade, with never a complaint, it's been happily serving DHCP, DNS, and NTP to about 20 machines in my home network. I like it because the slightly unusual architecture makes it slightly less attractive as a target to the bad-guys out there.
Maybe I'll replace it with a Raspberry Pi.
I'm quite happy to keep the board, if someone will step up and maintain it. It's had the initial conversion to DM done, but it needs a number of others still. Almost all of the drivers it uses have been converted already (the IDE driver being the exception).
I assume that however you're building U-Boot the warnings that get printed about conversion deadlines having come and gone are hidden in some way or another.
Sad to say, I don't have the skills to step up and maintain it myself. Though I'll be happy to participate in the effort as a willing (nay, eager) tester of new versions. I've got a second sheevaplug sitting on a shelf that somehow bricked itself about 5-7 years ago. I'd love to try to resurrect it, if somebody can point me to instructions for re-flashing the firmware. If I can get it running, it will be perfect for use as a testing machine.
Thanks! Rick