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: CONFIG_NET_MULTI option 11When: Release 2009-11 12 13Why: U-boot currently implements two network driver APIs. New drivers with 14 the older-style implementation have not been accepted for a while, and 15 this parallel system makes the code confusing and hard to augment. 16 17 All existing in-tree boards will be converted to use CONFIG_NET_MULTI 18 over the span of two releases (2009-07 and 2009-09). 19 In the 2009-11 release, all code that is compiled when CONFIG_NET_MULTI 20 is not set will be removed, and all references to CONFIG_NET_MULTI 21 will be removed, effectively making it the only API. This should 22 provide ample time for out-of-tree users to adjust, and for tools on 23 all architectures to be made to work with weak functions. 24 25Who: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> 26 27--------------------------- 28 29What: GPL cleanup 30When: August 2009 31Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot 32 source code that are either missing a valid GPL license 33 header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the 34 GPL. 35 Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree. 36 See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files 37 for an old and probably incomplete list of such files. 38 39Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers 40