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: Users of the legacy miiphy_* code 28When: undetermined 29 30Why: We now have a PHY library, which allows everyone to share PHY 31 drivers. All new drivers should use this infrastructure, and 32 all old drivers should get converted to use it. 33 34Who: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> and driver maintainers 35 36--------------------------- 37 38What: boards with xxx_config targets in top level Makefile 39When: Release v2012.03 40 41Why: We have a boards.cfg file which the vast majority of boards have 42 converted over to. Boards that still manually run mkconfig in the 43 top level Makefile are either dead, or the maintainer doesn't care, 44 or they are doing something weird/wrong that should be fixed in a 45 different way, or they need to extend boards.cfg syntax (unlikely). 46 47 In any case, if no one cares about these boards to figure out how 48 to make boards.cfg work, then we'll just punt them. 49 50Who: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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