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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2016-05-14 18:49:27 -0600
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2016-05-27 15:39:50 -0400
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Remove/update old generic-board documentation and warning
Remove the warning from the Makefile, since boards that do not use generic board will no longer build. Also update documentation. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.org>
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@@ -5,29 +5,22 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
#
-DEPRECATION NOTICE FOR arch/<arch>/lib/board.c
-
-For board maintainers: Please submit patches for boards you maintain before
-July 2014, to make them use generic board.
-
-For architecture maintainers: Please submit patches to remove your
-architecture-specific board.c file before October 2014.
-
-
Background
----------
-U-Boot has traditionally had a board.c file for each architecture. This has
-introduced quite a lot of duplication, with each architecture tending to do
+U-Boot traditionally had a board.c file for each architecture. This introduced
+quite a lot of duplication, with each architecture tending to do
initialisation slightly differently. To address this, a new 'generic board
-init' feature was introduced a year ago in March 2013 (further motivation is
+init' feature was introduced in March 2013 (further motivation is
provided in the cover letter below).
+All boards and architectures have moved to this as of mid 2016.
+
What has changed?
-----------------
-The main change is that the arch/<arch>/lib/board.c file is being removed in
+The main change is that the arch/<arch>/lib/board.c file is removed in
favour of common/board_f.c (for pre-relocation init) and common/board_r.c
(for post-relocation init).
@@ -36,55 +29,6 @@ fields which are common to all architectures. Architecture-specific fields
have been moved to separate structures.
-Supported Architectures
-------------------------
-
-If you are unlucky then your architecture may not support generic board.
-The following architectures are supported now:
-
- arc
- arm
- avr32
- blackfin
- m68k
- microblaze
- mips
- nios2
- powerpc
- sandbox
- x86
-
-If your architecture is not supported, you need to select
-HAVE_GENERIC_BOARD in arch/Kconfig
-and test it with a suitable board, as follows.
-
-
-Adding Support for your Board
------------------------------
-
-To enable generic board for your board, define CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD in
-your board config header file.
-
-Test that U-Boot still functions correctly on your board, and fix any
-problems you find. Don't be surprised if there are no problems - generic
-board has had a reasonable amount of testing with common boards.
-
-
-DeadLine
---------
-
-Please don't take this the wrong way - there is no intent to make your life
-miserable, and we have the greatest respect and admiration for U-Boot users.
-However, with any migration there has to be a period where the old way is
-deprecated and removed. Every patch to the deprecated code introduces a
-potential breakage in the new unused code. Therefore:
-
-Boards or architectures not converted over to general board by the
-end of 2014 may be forcibly changed over (potentially causing run-time
-breakage) or removed.
-
-
-
Further Background
------------------
@@ -190,3 +134,4 @@ convenience.
Simon Glass, sjg@chromium.org
March 2014
+Updated after final removal, May 2016