[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH v2 6/8] u-boot-imx: Remove Wandboard patch as it is not supported by mainline

[Eric Bénard]

Le Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:20:28 -0300,
Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> a écrit :

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
> > Hi Otavio,
> >
> > Le Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:56:01 -0300,
> > Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> a écrit :
> >
> >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:48 PM, John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Are we completely gutting the old u-boot for wandboard dual?  This patch
> >> > doesn't pertain to mainline but it does still work for the FSL u-boot.
> >>
> >> I'd prefer to remove old and unused code. Except if you have a reason
> >> to keep it?
> >>
> >> Both Dual and Solo variants are going to use U-Boot mainline and noone
> >> will use this, except if explicitly set. So I think in the end it
> >> won't be used at all. Do you see a reason to keep it?
> >
> > maybe because you are migrating several boards to a new bootloader which
> > is not even stable (u-boot 2013.04 is at rc2) and not present in the
> > official Freescale BSP ?
> 
> Wandboard support is not present in official BSP either; the U-Boot is
> being daily tested by Fabio and me so it had a good coverage.
> 
if two testers of a -rc2 is a good coverage to migrate several boards
(including some official Freescale evk) to this -rc2 a few days before
the release then everything is fine, sorry for the annoyance.

> > Or maybe the policy has changed since last week and you consider
> > there is no risk to migrate to a -rc bootloader just before the
> > release ;-)
> 
> The point is support. In case of maintain branch of kernel you won't
> be able to open SR issues about this kernel while U-Boot the support
> is already given by community.
> 
> So the policy is to allow the change when we will have support; not
> the opposite.
> 
OK fine.

Eric