On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:09:26PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
Okay, this patch will probably make Ron cry, but in the end, I think its better for the health of buildrom and the project (the patch, not Ron crying).
The OLPC code we had in here before was for revision B2 and earlier, which will never see the light of day to the public, and only myself, Ron and Segher have even seen them, let alone used them (and I'm not even sure if my B2 works).
Even if we were to revive LinuxBIOS for the B3 for the upcoming G1G1 effort, the existing code would be too bitrotten and too old to be of any use. The only use we had for it was as a decent example of how to do LAB, but Ward has upped the stakes with his LAB code that is way better, and if we have our way, eventually all the LAB code will go away in favor of something like buildroot. And finally, the OLPC buildrom code that last worked for B2 is still active over at dev.laptop.org, so the code will be accessible if need be.
So, with all that said, I am proposing this patch to remove OLPC support completely from buildrom, except for OFW, which I will discuss in the next patch. Flame on!
Call it a flame if you want, but:
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de
If somebody needs some of this later (for reference or whatever), it's still in the repository...
Note: I have not tested the patch, I assume you tested it and it didn't break random other stuff?
Uwe.