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

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Eric Bénard <eric@eukrea.com> wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
>
> Le Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:56:01 -0300,
> Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br> a écrit :
>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:48 PM, John Weber <rjohnweber@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.

> 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.

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