doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt

   1 The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
   2 removed from the U-Boot source tree.  Every entry should contain what
   3 exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed,
   4 and who is going to be doing the work.  When the feature is removed
   5 from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this
   6 file.
   7
   8 ---------------------------
   9
  10 What:   Remove CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST from default list
  11 When:   Release v2013.07
  12
  13 Why:    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
  23 Who:    Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
  24
  25 ---------------------------
  26
  27 What:   Users of the legacy miiphy_* code
  28 When:   undetermined
  29
  30 Why:    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
  34 Who:    Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> and driver maintainers
  35
  36 ---------------------------
  37
  38 What:   boards with xxx_config targets in top level Makefile
  39 When:   Release v2012.03
  40
  41 Why:    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
  50 Who:    Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  51
  52 ---------------------------
  53
  54 What:   GPL cleanup
  55 When:   August 2009
  56 Why:    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
  64 Who:    Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers