Hi Simon,
2015-08-22 2:53 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org:
Hi Masahiro,
On 19 August 2015 at 19:36, Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com wrote:
2015-08-19 13:35 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org:
All boards should be converted to generic board by now. Change the rest over. If this causes run-time breakages then we can remove those boards.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
With this, we will lose reason to drop old unmaintained boards that might be an obstacle for our further cleanup. (for example, per-board config.mk, per-board linker script)
The next chance to drop unmaintained boards is the end of 2016, where non-DM boards will be dropped. At that point, I guess most of maintainers would choose removal rather than conversion as the DM conversion requires much work.
BTW, we will never notice run-time breakages because such unmaintaned boards are never run.
I am not opposed to this patch, but bofore it is applied, I'd like to drop one more board.
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/508887/ This is now applicable because Heiko, the maintainer of this board, gave acked-by.
Yes I agree, this is a drawback. My objective is to get rid of arch/arm/lib/board.c. Are there any other pending patches for ARM board removal, or are you planning to send some?
No, cam_enc_4xx is the last one I wanted to remove (and Tom picked up the removal patch).
So, I am satisfied.
Also, I believe that PowerPC will be fully converted once your latest series is applied (although I see a lot of boards converted at the last moment). So can we remove arch/powerpc/lib/board.c, etc.? We should try to get that done during this release too I think. I'm happy to do a patch.
Yes, I think arch/powerpc/lib/board.c should be deleted after my series is applied.