On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:56:40 -0700 David Brownell <davi...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 April 2009, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > > > > > > Before I submit a patch to remove it from U-Boot GIT (nothing > > > > > there enables it, and it will nastify 4-bit support), I > > > > > thought I'd see if anyone knows exactly what software it was > > > > > trying to emulate. ... > > > > > > > > maybe add it in the feature-removal-schedule.txt > > > > will let people time to explain why they need it > > > > > > Hm... I don't think this is needed. > > > > > > Since there are no users of this code in U-Boot, we can as well > > > remove it without warning. > > That was my thought. If it were important enough to keep in > *this* source base, someone would have submitted some board > that uses it. It's badly enough broken that I don't know who > would bother using it, though; anyone trying to use it has some > kind of (non-Linux?) support nightmare already. > > > > no necessarelly the boards Maintainer choose to use the other ECC > > but part of the U-Boot user may need it. > > So add it in the removal schedule make sense. We can evenif plan it > > for the next Release. > > I wouldn't mind doing that. > > > > > > After my only request will be to use the same ECC as the > > > > mainline kernel or if someone explain why he need it add on > > > > other ECC algo > > Right, mainline does not use that "broken" ECC. I can't > figure out who *does* use it, either... We certainly don't use it for the SFFSDR board. Hugo V. _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source