[coreboot] [RFC] Drop PowerPC port

[Uwe Hermann]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:35:57AM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> > Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> >> we have been discussing to drop the PowerPC port completely if
> >> nobody is willing to step up and revive it. Comments?
> >
> > The old revs will still be there.
> >
> > In a way I think this is fine for all boards. Unless someone does the
> > work to update soon, there's no point in keeping broken ports around.
> >
> >
> > //Peter
> 
> I agree,

Ditto. For PowerPC and ARM and MIPS u-boot and other bootloaders are
better suited and already work and are maintained etc...


> We should probably try to have a "last known working version"
> in the supported boards list on the wiki.

Hm, dunno, if the boards are removed from svn we could also remove them from
the wiki table completely (or put them in a "supported in earlier revisions"
table somewhere else, in case somebody may want to resurrect them).


Uwe.
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