Dear Graeme Russ, > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Marek Vasut<[email protected]> wrote: >> Dne Út 5. října 2010 22:03:23 Wolfgang Denk napsal(a): >>> The logodl board has long been unmaintained and left broken. >>> As obviously nobody is interestedin that code any more, we may as well >>> remove it. >> >> I'd like to NACK it as it's sad to kill a board, but whatever. I don't own >> one. >> > > I vote for creating an 'unmaintained/broken boards' directory and moving > all the broken boards into it (and remove them from the boards.cfg and > makeall script etc). At least that way if anyone dusts off an old board > they can at least see where it was up to. Maybe also a short note to > indicate the last known 'good' release of U-Boot that each board worked > with to allow anyone interested to get it back up to speed faster > > The first thing that is always said when someone asks about a board they > have been given/bought with an old version of U-Boot is to upgrade, pretty > hard to do if it's been nuked from the tree ;)
A text file in doc, like README.historic-boards would suffice, indicating which u-boot release that board was nuked. It would also be good to mention CPU that board used. So anyone looking to support a similar board could have a look and with git its possible to get the old files. Reinhard _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
