1The following is a list of files and features that are going to be 2removed from the U-Boot source tree. Every entry should contain what 3exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed, 4and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed 5from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this 6file. 7 8--------------------------- 9 10What: Remove CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST from default list 11When: Release v2013.07 12 13Why: The "mtest" command is of little practical use (if any), and 14 experience has shown that a large number of board configu- 15 rations define useless or even dangerous start and end 16 addresses. If not even the board maintainers are able to 17 figure out which memory range can be reliably tested, how can 18 we expect such from the end users? As this problem comes up 19 repeatedly, we rather do not enable this command by default, 20 so only people who know what they are doing will be confronted 21 with it. 22 23Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> 24 25--------------------------- 26 27What: Remove CONFIG_SYS_ENABLE_PADS_ALL and CONFIG_SYS_CLOCKS_ENABLE_ALL 28When: Release v2013.07 29 30Why: When set these options enable "all" of the pads and clocks found 31 on OMAP4/5 platforms, so that the Linux Kernel does not have to. 32 It has been agreed that this goes against the U-Boot design 33 philosophy and since f3f98bb0 we have not enabled more than is 34 used in U-Boot. The kernel has been updating drivers to enable 35 rather than assume pads/clocks have been enabled already. Our 36 expectation is that by v2013.07 a suitable kernel shall exist that 37 does not need these options set for a reasonable I/O set to function. 38 39Who: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> and Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com> 40 41--------------------------- 42 43What: Users of the legacy miiphy_* code 44When: undetermined 45 46Why: We now have a PHY library, which allows everyone to share PHY 47 drivers. All new drivers should use this infrastructure, and 48 all old drivers should get converted to use it. 49 50Who: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> and driver maintainers 51 52--------------------------- 53 54What: GPL cleanup 55When: August 2009 56Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot 57 source code that are either missing a valid GPL license 58 header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the 59 GPL. 60 Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree. 61 See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files 62 for an old and probably incomplete list of such files. 63 64Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers 65