On 09/19/2012 05:57:56 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
Dear Graeme Russ,
Hi Tom,
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Tom Rini trini@ti.com wrote:
A more elaborate set of statements on my feelings about "old"
boards
and what needs to happen, in light of the facts that the code is messy, will require updating for DM and likelyhood of a small but devoted community around some of them.
My gut feeling on this is to either move unmaintained / inactive boards to a separate board directory
And hoard crap? No, you can dig them from git history, the objects will still be there.
or add a flag to boards.cfg (If we add a flag to boards.cfg then we can specify that MAKEALL should skip those boards)
Either way, we can then let them bit-rot
I disagree
(I know, bad words) but at least if someone comes along with an actual board, they have a place to start.
They can retrieve it from git history and re-add it in such unlikely case.
This is what happened to me with the x86 arch - the existing code was horribly broken, but at least I had a solid foundation to start reinvigorating it.
It's still horribly broken, but that's partly because of x86 itself is a horribly broken CPU :-)
Maybe have a GRAVEYARD file that lists hardware support and other notable features that have been removed, so it's easy for someone to tell whether digging through the git history might be fruitful.
-Scott