On 5 February 2016 at 09:18, Ryan Harkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 February 2016 at 11:40, Ryan Harkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 3 February 2016 at 17:42, Leif Lindholm <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Ryan,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 05:09:28PM +0000, Ryan Harkin wrote:
>>>> This is an update to my original series titled:
>>>>
>>>>         [PATCH 0/2] ArmPlatformPkg: Remove FVP and Juno
>>>>
>>>> ARM Ltd Platform support is migrating to use OpenPlatformPkg [1].
>>>>
>>>> Currently, TC2, Juno and FVP exist both in EDK2's ArmPlatformPkg and in
>>>> OpenPlatformPkg.  And they are starting to diverge, with
>>>> OpenPlatformPkg being the most up-to-date with current developments.
>>>> To prevent this divergence, remove the .dsc and .fdf files from
>>>> ArmPlatformPkg and leave OpenPlatformPkg as the master.
>>>>
>>>> 32-bit models are no longer tested or supported, so this series also
>>>> removes the .dsc/fdf files for them.
>>>>
>>>> And the Sec library has no clients either, so that can also be removed
>>>> as it hasn't been tested for a long time.
>>>>
>>>> We can't remove ArmJuno.dec yet because ACPI still uses it to set the
>>>> include path to ArmPlatform.h.
>>>>
>>>> [PATCH 1/6] ArmPlatformPkg: remove ArmVExpress-CTA15-A7.dsc/fdf
>>>> [PATCH 2/6] ArmPlatformPkg: remove ArmVExpress-FVP-AArch64.dsc/fdf
>>>> [PATCH 3/6] ArmPlatformPkg: remove ArmJuno.dsc/fdf
>>>> [PATCH 4/6] ArmPlatformPkg: remove ArmVExpress-RTSM-A15_MPCore.dsc/fdf
>>>> [PATCH 5/6] ArmPlatformPkg: remove unused Sec library
>>>> [PATCH 6/6] Revert "ArmPlatformPkg: Create an ARM Platform DSC / FDF
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://git.linaro.org/uefi/OpenPlatformPkg.git
>>>
>>> I am entirely happy with 1-5.
>>> I know Ard objected to (what is now) 2. This is something to be
>>> discussed.
>>>
>
> Ard's last comment on the idea of removing FVP was:
>
> "I am happy to switch to OpenPlatformPkg for building those once it is
> synced up with EDK2"
>
> ... which is now the case.
>
>

OK, so there are two aspects to take into consideration here:
- we need reference code in EDK2 in can be reused as a starting point
for porting it to new ARM platforms
- we need to support actual users of FVP Foundation model and FVP Base model.

So while I am perfectly happy to build my EDK2 snapshots for FVP from
OpenPlatformPkg, I think the pragmatism involved in keeping things
working for actual users (i.e., kick the GICv3 in v2 mode, or other
platform specific workarounds) does not belong in the upstream
reference code. So perhaps we can keep ArmPlatformPkg/FVP in EDK2 (and
I don't mind picking up the maintainership), but reverse the roles,
i.e., anyone that is interested in running it on the latest model/ATF
should be using OpenPlatformPkg, but we keep a version in EDK2 that is
clean from hacks you will need to actually build and run it.

>>> 6/6 ... I think we can leave ArmPlatformLinBull in for now.
>>> It is meant to be a template for use by new platform ports.
>>> Ard: what's your take on dropping the generic .dsc files?
>>>
>>
>> I discussed this with Leif on IRC.  We'll drop PATCH 6/6 and I'll
>> submit a different patch for review to remove these files:
>>
>>  ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg-2ndstage.dsc
>>  ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg-2ndstage.fdf
>>  ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dsc
>>  ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.fdf
>
> I've sent the patch to remove these files a short while ago.  Let me
> know if you wish me to re-send this as a v3 series.
>
> You can find the series here as patches f5cd78c^..61f537a
>
> https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/arm/edk2.git/shortlog/refs/tags/armlt-20160204
>
> As before, ignore my hacks that sit on top, although you're welcome to
> inspect and provide comment, of course.
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