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: boards with xxx_config targets in top level Makefile 11When: Release v2012.03 12 13Why: We have a boards.cfg file which the vast majority of boards have 14 converted over to. Boards that still manually run mkconfig in the 15 top level Makefile are either dead, or the maintainer doesn't care, 16 or they are doing something weird/wrong that should be fixed in a 17 different way, or they need to extend boards.cfg syntax (unlikely). 18 19 In any case, if no one cares about these boards to figure out how 20 to make boards.cfg work, then we'll just punt them. 21 22Who: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 23 24--------------------------- 25 26What: CONFIG_NET_MULTI option 27When: Release 2009-11 28 29Why: U-boot currently implements two network driver APIs. New drivers with 30 the older-style implementation have not been accepted for a while, and 31 this parallel system makes the code confusing and hard to augment. 32 33 All existing in-tree boards will be converted to use CONFIG_NET_MULTI 34 over the span of two releases (2009-07 and 2009-09). 35 In the 2009-11 release, all code that is compiled when CONFIG_NET_MULTI 36 is not set will be removed, and all references to CONFIG_NET_MULTI 37 will be removed, effectively making it the only API. This should 38 provide ample time for out-of-tree users to adjust, and for tools on 39 all architectures to be made to work with weak functions. 40 41Who: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> 42 43--------------------------- 44 45What: GPL cleanup 46When: August 2009 47Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot 48 source code that are either missing a valid GPL license 49 header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the 50 GPL. 51 Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree. 52 See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files 53 for an old and probably incomplete list of such files. 54 55Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers 56