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
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10 What: CONFIG_NET_MULTI option
13 Why: U-boot currently implements two network driver APIs. New drivers with
14 the older-style implementation have not been accepted for a while, and
15 this parallel system makes the code confusing and hard to augment.
17 All existing in-tree boards will be converted to use CONFIG_NET_MULTI
18 over the span of two releases (2009-07 and 2009-09).
19 In the 2009-11 release, all code that is compiled when CONFIG_NET_MULTI
20 is not set will be removed, and all references to CONFIG_NET_MULTI
21 will be removed, effectively making it the only API. This should
22 provide ample time for out-of-tree users to adjust, and for tools on
23 all architectures to be made to work with weak functions.
25 Who: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
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31 Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot
32 source code that are either missing a valid GPL license
33 header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the
35 Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree.
36 See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files
37 for an old and probably incomplete list of such files.
39 Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers