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author | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2010-09-29 11:25:55 +0200 |
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committer | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2010-10-04 10:56:25 +0200 |
commit | d483a22ecaa44b7c6b3ec98ed0f259c44b5590cb (patch) | |
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CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC: document feature removal
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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diff --git a/doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5fe21e8..ffe2615 100644 --- a/doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -1,11 +1,38 @@ The following is a list of files and features that are going to be removed from the U-Boot source tree. Every entry should contain what exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed, -and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed +and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC option +When: After Release 2011.03 + +Why: The implementation of U-Boot for the ARM architecture has + been reworked to support relocation. This allows to + efficiently use the same U-Boot binary image on systems with + different RAM sizes, and brings the implementation much more + in line with the code used for example on Power Architecture + systems (eventually allowing to merge into common code). This + seems especailly interesting now that ARM is getting Device + Tree support as well. + + All ARM boards need to be adapted to this new code, which + requires testing on the actual hardware, so this is a task + for the respective board maintainers or other users. + + Please see the commit message of commit f1d2b31 for details: + + http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f1d2b31 + + Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed + after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been + converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are + considered unmaintained and without interest for the + community and will be removed as well. + +--------------------------- What: CONFIG_NET_MULTI option When: Release 2009-11 |