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The "mtest" command is of little practical use (if any), and experience has shown that a large number of board configurations define useless or even dangerous start and end addresses. If not even the board maintainers are able to figure out which memory range can be reliably tested, how can we expect such from the end users? As this problem comes up repeatedly, we rather do not enable this command by default, so only people who know what they are doing will be confronted with it. As this changes the user interface, we allow for a grace period before this change takes effect. For now, we make "mtest" configurable through the CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST variable, which is defined in include/config_cmd_default.h; we also add an entry to doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt which announces the removal of this default setting in two releases from now, i. e. with v2013.07. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Cc: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
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The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
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removed from the U-Boot source tree. Every entry should contain what
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exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed,
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and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed
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from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this
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file.
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What: Remove CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST from default list
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When: Release v2013.07
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Why: The "mtest" command is of little practical use (if any), and
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experience has shown that a large number of board configu-
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rations define useless or even dangerous start and end
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addresses. If not even the board maintainers are able to
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figure out which memory range can be reliably tested, how can
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we expect such from the end users? As this problem comes up
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repeatedly, we rather do not enable this command by default,
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so only people who know what they are doing will be confronted
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with it.
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Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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What: Users of the legacy miiphy_* code
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When: undetermined
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Why: We now have a PHY library, which allows everyone to share PHY
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drivers. All new drivers should use this infrastructure, and
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all old drivers should get converted to use it.
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Who: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> and driver maintainers
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What: boards with xxx_config targets in top level Makefile
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When: Release v2012.03
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Why: We have a boards.cfg file which the vast majority of boards have
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converted over to. Boards that still manually run mkconfig in the
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top level Makefile are either dead, or the maintainer doesn't care,
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or they are doing something weird/wrong that should be fixed in a
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different way, or they need to extend boards.cfg syntax (unlikely).
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In any case, if no one cares about these boards to figure out how
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to make boards.cfg work, then we'll just punt them.
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Who: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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What: GPL cleanup
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When: August 2009
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Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot
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source code that are either missing a valid GPL license
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header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the
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GPL.
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Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree.
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See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files
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for an old and probably incomplete list of such files.
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Who: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> and board maintainers
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