| Peter Tyser | 9bfa114 | 2009-01-30 16:36:40 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | The following is a list of files and features that are going to be |
| 2 | removed from the U-Boot source tree. Every entry should contain what |
| 3 | exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed, |
| Wolfgang Denk | 239862b | 2010-09-29 11:25:55 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed |
| Peter Tyser | 9bfa114 | 2009-01-30 16:36:40 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this |
| 6 | file. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | --------------------------- |
| 9 | |
| Wolfgang Denk | 9d00928 | 2013-03-08 10:51:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | What: Remove CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST from default list |
| 11 | When: Release v2013.07 |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Why: The "mtest" command is of little practical use (if any), and |
| 14 | experience has shown that a large number of board configu- |
| 15 | rations define useless or even dangerous start and end |
| 16 | addresses. If not even the board maintainers are able to |
| 17 | figure out which memory range can be reliably tested, how can |
| 18 | we expect such from the end users? As this problem comes up |
| 19 | repeatedly, we rather do not enable this command by default, |
| 20 | so only people who know what they are doing will be confronted |
| 21 | with it. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> |
| 24 | |
| 25 | --------------------------- |
| 26 | |
| Tom Rini | 2908c9b | 2013-04-02 07:39:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 27 | What: Remove CONFIG_SYS_ENABLE_PADS_ALL and CONFIG_SYS_CLOCKS_ENABLE_ALL |
| 28 | When: Release v2013.07 |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Why: When set these options enable "all" of the pads and clocks found |
| 31 | on OMAP4/5 platforms, so that the Linux Kernel does not have to. |
| 32 | It has been agreed that this goes against the U-Boot design |
| 33 | philosophy and since f3f98bb0 we have not enabled more than is |
| 34 | used in U-Boot. The kernel has been updating drivers to enable |
| 35 | rather than assume pads/clocks have been enabled already. Our |
| 36 | expectation is that by v2013.07 a suitable kernel shall exist that |
| 37 | does not need these options set for a reasonable I/O set to function. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | Who: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> and Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com> |
| 40 | |
| 41 | --------------------------- |
| 42 | |
| Andy Fleming | 896a717 | 2011-10-31 09:46:13 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | What: Users of the legacy miiphy_* code |
| 44 | When: undetermined |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Why: We now have a PHY library, which allows everyone to share PHY |
| 47 | drivers. All new drivers should use this infrastructure, and |
| 48 | all old drivers should get converted to use it. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Who: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> and driver maintainers |
| 51 | |
| 52 | --------------------------- |
| 53 | |
| Mike Frysinger | a6dacda | 2011-10-01 10:15:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | What: boards with xxx_config targets in top level Makefile |
| 55 | When: Release v2012.03 |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Why: We have a boards.cfg file which the vast majority of boards have |
| 58 | converted over to. Boards that still manually run mkconfig in the |
| 59 | top level Makefile are either dead, or the maintainer doesn't care, |
| 60 | or they are doing something weird/wrong that should be fixed in a |
| 61 | different way, or they need to extend boards.cfg syntax (unlikely). |
| 62 | |
| 63 | In any case, if no one cares about these boards to figure out how |
| 64 | to make boards.cfg work, then we'll just punt them. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | Who: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> |
| 67 | |
| 68 | --------------------------- |
| 69 | |
| Wolfgang Denk | 636e95d | 2009-04-02 17:31:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | What: GPL cleanup |
| 71 | When: August 2009 |
| 72 | Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot |
| 73 | source code that are either missing a valid GPL license |
| 74 | header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the |
| 75 | GPL. |
| 76 | Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree. |
| 77 | See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files |
| 78 | for an old and probably incomplete list of such files. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers |