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
+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.
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-What: "autoscr" command
-When: August 2009
-Why: "autosrc" is an ugly and completely non-standard name. The "autoscr"
- command is deprecated and will be replaced the "source" command as
- used by other shells such as bash. Both commands will be supported
- for a transition period of 6 months after which "autoscr" will be
- removed.
-Who: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
+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>
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-What: Individual I2C commands
-When: April 2009
-Why: Per the U-Boot README, individual I2C commands such as "imd", "imm",
- "imw", etc are deprecated. The single "i2c" command which is
- currently enabled via CONFIG_I2C_CMD_TREE contains the same
- functionality as the individual I2C commands. The individual
- I2C commands should be removed as well as any references to
- CONFIG_I2C_CMD_TREE.
-Who: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.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
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-What: Legacy NAND code
-When: April 2009
-Why: Legacy NAND code is deprecated. Similar functionality exists in
- more recent NAND code ported from the Linux kernel.
-Who: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
+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
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