| The following is a list of files and features that are going to be |
| removed from the U-Boot source tree. Every entry should contain what |
| exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed, |
| and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed |
| from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this |
| file. |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: Remove CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST from default list |
| When: Release v2013.07 |
| |
| Why: The "mtest" command is of little practical use (if any), and |
| experience has shown that a large number of board configu- |
| rations define useless or even dangerous start and end |
| addresses. If not even the board maintainers are able to |
| figure out which memory range can be reliably tested, how can |
| we expect such from the end users? As this problem comes up |
| repeatedly, we rather do not enable this command by default, |
| so only people who know what they are doing will be confronted |
| with it. |
| |
| Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: Remove CONFIG_SYS_ENABLE_PADS_ALL and CONFIG_SYS_CLOCKS_ENABLE_ALL |
| When: Release v2013.07 |
| |
| Why: When set these options enable "all" of the pads and clocks found |
| on OMAP4/5 platforms, so that the Linux Kernel does not have to. |
| It has been agreed that this goes against the U-Boot design |
| philosophy and since f3f98bb0 we have not enabled more than is |
| used in U-Boot. The kernel has been updating drivers to enable |
| rather than assume pads/clocks have been enabled already. Our |
| expectation is that by v2013.07 a suitable kernel shall exist that |
| does not need these options set for a reasonable I/O set to function. |
| |
| Who: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> and Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: Users of the legacy miiphy_* code |
| When: undetermined |
| |
| Why: We now have a PHY library, which allows everyone to share PHY |
| drivers. All new drivers should use this infrastructure, and |
| all old drivers should get converted to use it. |
| |
| Who: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> and driver maintainers |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: boards with xxx_config targets in top level Makefile |
| When: Release v2012.03 |
| |
| Why: We have a boards.cfg file which the vast majority of boards have |
| converted over to. Boards that still manually run mkconfig in the |
| top level Makefile are either dead, or the maintainer doesn't care, |
| or they are doing something weird/wrong that should be fixed in a |
| different way, or they need to extend boards.cfg syntax (unlikely). |
| |
| In any case, if no one cares about these boards to figure out how |
| to make boards.cfg work, then we'll just punt them. |
| |
| Who: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: GPL cleanup |
| When: August 2009 |
| Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot |
| source code that are either missing a valid GPL license |
| header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the |
| GPL. |
| Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree. |
| See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files |
| for an old and probably incomplete list of such files. |
| |
| Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers |