On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Simon Guinot wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 07:16:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > > > On 31 August 2015 at 01:51, Simon Guinot <simon.gui...@sequanux.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:18:57PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > >> These boards have not been converted to generic board by the deadline. > > >> Remove all except edmini_v2 (which has been converted). > > > > > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > Great... Is it still time to convert this boards to "generic board" > > > support ? > > > > Yes if you are quick - please see doc/README.generic-board which has > > instructions. It should be very simple. > > OK. It is done. > > > > > > > > > You know, a direct email (I mean with my email address in the To or Cc > > > fields) to make me aware of this project would have been both fair and > > > very appreciated. > > > > OK well I'm sorry you haven't seen anything up until now. I wonder if > > we should cc all the maintainers when we have an announcement that > > affects their boards. There are a lot of maintainers though! > > The result of the current process is a patch series which removes > support for a _lot_ of boards. It can't be correct. Moreover the > conversion work consists in adding a single define. I think it would > be far better to add the missing define for all this boards rather > than kicking them out.
So, I understand your frustration. I thought we had sent out an email or two to board maintainers at various points about this conversion (which has been going on for over 2 years, and a single line change for at least a year, pretty much everywhere) but it looks like some boards slipped through the cracks and didn't get emailed. But it's also been a bit over 2 years and I'm pretty sure that at least 3 or 4 times in my release emails I've said "we're going to delete boards that aren't converted, please convert and test!". So yes, Simon first made a series to blind-convert the straglers but then we decided to delete instead as this is a good test for how interested people are in the hardware and if we can drop some code that will make other conversions which are going on now easier too. -- Tom
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