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From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] dm: Update on serial driver progress
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 19:55:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPnjgZ22bKPcE5Kf1+My4Wbw36Y7+gVYTWHE6au8LF01YSt+rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477651472.3015.13.camel@toradex.com>

Hi Marcel,

On 28 October 2016 at 04:44, Marcel Ziswiler
<marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 16:30 +0000, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 21 October 2016 at 01:10, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 10/21/2016 08:52 AM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi Simon
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 13:06 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Only three serial drivers remain to be converted. This series
>> > > > drops
>> > > > two of those, since the boards appear to be unmaintained.
>> > > >
>> > > > With this, only blackfin remains.
>> > > >
>> > > > The blackfin driver probably needs to be converted as there is
>> > > > recent
>> > > > activity with these boards. I am copying the maintainer so that
>> > > > this
>> > > > work can be completed.
>> > > Could you please hold off with dropping the PXA serial driver and
>> > > accompanying PXA270 support. I will have a look at it ASAP. We do
>> > > actually continue to sell the Colibri PXA270 (as we are the
>> > > Colibri
>> > > PXA320) and I have been maintaining it lately with sending
>> > > patches as
>> > > recently as last week! It would be rather sad to see it drop like
>> > > the
>> > > PXA3xx support did a couple years back when we were too busy with
>> > > other
>> > > issues.
>> OK we can hold off - when do you expect to do this?
>
> Thanks Simon, I'm looking into it right now.

Great. Also are you going to bring back the other PXA boards? It
should be really easy - I very much doubt that there will be any odd
bugs with generic board.

>
>> Also re PXA3xx, please feel free to bring it back. If I recall it was
>> only removed long after the deadline for conversion.
>
> Yeah, I guess the only constant is change (;-p).

Well I wish it could happen for free :-) This was signaled for a long
long time. I think we missed an email to maintainers for the generic
board stuff, but I thought that serial drivers were well communicated.
I hope that maintainers can take on a little work every now and then.

Regards,
Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-20 19:06 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] dm: Update on serial driver progress Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/8] arm: Remove colibri_pxa270 board Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/8] arm: Remove h2200 board Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/8] arm: Remove zipitz2 board Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/8] arm: Drop pxa serial driver Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/8] serial: Update docs to indicate mcfuart supports DM_SERIAL Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/8] arm: Remove smdk2410 board Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/8] arm: Remove VCMA9 board Simon Glass
2016-10-20 19:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 8/8] serial: Drop the s3c24x0 serial driver Simon Glass
2016-10-21  6:52 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] dm: Update on serial driver progress Marcel Ziswiler
2016-10-21  8:10   ` Marek Vasut
2016-10-26 16:30     ` Simon Glass
2016-10-28 10:44       ` Marcel Ziswiler
2016-11-02  1:55         ` Simon Glass [this message]
2016-11-02 15:44           ` Marcel Ziswiler

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