On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Ting Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Otavio Salvador [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 9:39 PM
>> To: Ting Liu <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] [meta-freescale-layer][PATCH 01/67] remove
>> not supported e500v2 machines
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:41 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > From: Ting Liu <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > Remove the below machines which are not supported/tested:
>> > bsc9131rdb, bsc9132qds, p1010rdb, p1020rdb, p1021rdb, p1022ds
>> > p1023rdb, p1025twr, p2020rdb
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Ting Liu <[email protected]>
>>
>> i understand why you are doing this but I don't support this. There are users
>> out there using those and as such NXP should keep those supported. We use
>> same rule for i.MX and what we do is moving the old BSP machines for
>> mainline kernel/u-boot so people has at least an upgrade path.
> [Liu Ting-B28495] I understand your points. But these boards are not tested 
> with the latest kernel/u-boot/fm-ucode/qe-ucode/etc.
> We want to remove them to avoid confusion.
>
> It is easy to add back the machine configuration files. The recipes for 
> kernel/u-boot/etc. should be rolled back to the previous revision on which 
> these boards are supported too. Anyway, this need effort to verify, including 
> build and function.

I am not the owner of those machines, on the BSP, so I cannot block
the removal. For the i.MX I always preferred to move the machines for
the mainline kernel/u-boot and keep them around so people could use
and improve them. This was a way to empower the community and provide
a long term solution for our users.

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