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
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9What:	CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC option
10When:	After Release 2011.03
11
12Why:	The implementation of U-Boot for the ARM architecture has
13	been reworked to support relocation. This allows to
14	efficiently use the same U-Boot binary image on systems with
15	different RAM sizes, and brings the implementation much more
16	in line with the code used for example on Power Architecture
17	systems (eventually allowing to merge into common code). This
18	seems especailly interesting now that ARM is getting Device
19	Tree support as well.
20
21	All ARM boards need to be adapted to this new code, which
22	requires testing on the actual hardware, so this is a task
23	for the respective board maintainers or other users.
24
25	Please see the commit message of commit f1d2b31 for details:
26
27	http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f1d2b31
28
29	Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed
30	after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been
31	converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are
32	considered unmaintained and without interest for the
33	community and will be removed as well.
34
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36
37What:	CONFIG_NET_MULTI option
38When:	Release 2009-11
39
40Why:	U-boot currently implements two network driver APIs.  New drivers with
41	the older-style implementation have not been accepted for a while, and
42	this parallel system makes the code confusing and hard to augment.
43
44	All existing in-tree boards will be converted to use CONFIG_NET_MULTI
45	over the span of two releases (2009-07 and 2009-09).
46	In the 2009-11 release, all code that is compiled when CONFIG_NET_MULTI
47	is not set will be removed, and all references to CONFIG_NET_MULTI
48	will be removed, effectively making it the only API.  This should
49	provide ample time for out-of-tree users to adjust, and for tools on
50	all architectures to be made to work with weak functions.
51
52Who:	Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
53
54---------------------------
55
56What:	GPL cleanup
57When:	August 2009
58Why:	Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot
59	source code that are either missing a valid GPL license
60	header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the
61	GPL.
62	Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree.
63	See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files
64	for an old and probably incomplete list of such files.
65
66Who:	Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers
67