On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:04:10PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Holger, > > In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > > > This commit removes support for the Freescale MPC82xx Power > > > Architecture processors, i. e. MPC8240, MPC8245, MPC8247, MPC8248, > > > MPC8250, MPC8255, MPC8260, MPC8265, MPC8266, MPC8272, MPC8280, ... > > > > > > They have been out of production for years, and no active users left > > > here. As some boards start causing problems, let's drop the obsolete > > > and now dead code. > > > > thats not valid for us. Our mgcoge3ne target which comes with a MPC8247 is > > still > > in production and maintained. If you look at the git log of > > Argh... Can you foresee how much longer this hardware is likely to be > maintained? > > > So isn't it possible to remove only the broken boards and keep the generic > > parts? > > Yes, this would be possible, too. But then, it appears you are the > only remaining active user of MPC82xx. OK, MPC8247 is actually still > marked as "active" at Freescale, soory I missed that - the MPC824x > types I checked were in "No Longer Manufactured" state. > > The thing is that there are tons of interdependencies an #defines that > need to be checked so we don't leave too many unused #defines and such > around. > > I see several options now: > > 1) We apply the patch as is, and if you really have to modify your > code you would do this out-of-tree based on the last frozen > version. > > 2) I rework the patch to remove only the MPC826x / MPC828x code. > > 3) I rework the patch to remove only the broken boards - which are > these actually? > > > Tom, what is your opinion here?
For this release, lets go with #3, which is already done (York grabbed the patch to drop linkstation_HGLAN and that was the only FTB) and then for the next release we can do #2 if there's no objections. -- Tom
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