[coreboot] [PATCH] Proposal for dealing with superio *.c includes

Alex G. mr.nuke.me at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 22:44:00 CET 2011


On 02/26/2011 11:43 PM, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Am Samstag, 26. Februar 2011, 23:27:47 schrieb Alex G.:
>> Why bother holding dear to romcc when the obvious solution is to move
>> those boards to CAR? We introduce more unneeded complexity, and make it
>> at least just as hard to phase out romcc.
> Those boards carry CPUs without CAR.
> 
Then those boards are most likely old and obsolete. Is it worth still
supporting them? "Support for this board was dropped with revision
'xyzw'". Do we want to make it xyzwq ?

> As for phasing out such support: That would be easy (just drop everything 
> guarded in CONFIG_ROMCC in the build system).
> 
Yeah, wasting countless hours fixing something that should have been
done long ago is fun. Oh wait, you guys are grep/sed masters; nevermind
that. :)

Alex




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