[PATCH 16/19] eukrea-cpuimx51: remove board

Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria at canonical.com
Wed Dec 14 22:58:54 EST 2011


On 11 Dec 13, Eric Bénard wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> Le 13/12/2011 11:05, Sascha Hauer a écrit :
> >On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:31:48AM +0100, Eric Bénard wrote:
> >>this board is not maintained anymore and is replaced by cpuimx51sd
> >
> >I'm happy to remove this code, but aren't there any users of this board?
> >
> not any that would need a kernel upgrade considering the Freescale
> proprietary drivers used on it :-(
> Thanks,
> Eric

Just for posterity, could you list the drivers that make an upgrade
impossible?

IMHO, if these boards were sold commercially we should maintain support if
there is a chance that we will get open drivers in the future.

OTOH, if you can tell who each of these boards to, it is probably a good
target for removal. :)

/Amit

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