27 авг. 2014 г., в 15:51, Stefan Kalkowski <[email protected]> написал(а):
> Hey Genode hackers, > > I'd like to propose to mark the following hardware boards as deprecated, > and to discontinue the support of both platforms in Genode in the medium > term for the following reasons: > > * i.MX31 is pretty old, and AFAIK not used by any Genode hackers > * The Versatile Express platform is mainly used to get hands on fresh > ARM CPUs at first, not widely used as a normal development board, and > not used as a platform in practice at all, moreover it's quite > expensive, and thereby not widespread. > * The support of Cortex A9 cpus (cpu used in vea9x4) is already covered > by the Pandaboard and the PBXA9 platform > * A lot of (not widely used) hardware platforms is a burden for the > (currently) relatively small Genode development community. > * Last but not least, both platforms are not tested automatically like > other hardware platforms Genode supports. Normally we try to > automatically test a bunch of basic tests all night on various hardware > platforms. Of course, we could add i.MX31 and vea9x4 to our test farm, > but that includes hardware and engineering costs with (at least for us) > questionable benefit. > > So, as long as there is nobody who cries: "No, I use one of these > platforms with Genode! I need it." I would vote for the removal of both. > sure. We do not need it. > Regards > Stefan > > -- > Stefan Kalkowski > Genode Labs > > http://www.genode-labs.com/ · http://genode.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > genode-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main -- Sartakov A. Vasily [email protected]
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