The following is a list of files and features that are going to be removed from the U-Boot source tree. Every entry should contain what exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed, and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this file. --------------------------- What: CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC option When: After Release 2011.03 Why: The implementation of U-Boot for the ARM architecture has been reworked to support relocation. This allows to efficiently use the same U-Boot binary image on systems with different RAM sizes, and brings the implementation much more in line with the code used for example on Power Architecture systems (eventually allowing to merge into common code). This seems especailly interesting now that ARM is getting Device Tree support as well. All ARM boards need to be adapted to this new code, which requires testing on the actual hardware, so this is a task for the respective board maintainers or other users. Please see the commit message of commit f1d2b31 for details: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f1d2b31 Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are considered unmaintained and without interest for the community and will be removed as well. --------------------------- What: CONFIG_NET_MULTI option When: Release 2009-11 Why: U-boot currently implements two network driver APIs. New drivers with the older-style implementation have not been accepted for a while, and this parallel system makes the code confusing and hard to augment. All existing in-tree boards will be converted to use CONFIG_NET_MULTI over the span of two releases (2009-07 and 2009-09). In the 2009-11 release, all code that is compiled when CONFIG_NET_MULTI is not set will be removed, and all references to CONFIG_NET_MULTI will be removed, effectively making it the only API. This should provide ample time for out-of-tree users to adjust, and for tools on all architectures to be made to work with weak functions. Who: Ben Warren --------------------------- What: GPL cleanup When: August 2009 Why: Over time, a couple of files have sneaked in into the U-Boot source code that are either missing a valid GPL license header or that carry a license that is incompatible with the GPL. Such files shall be removed from the U-Boot source tree. See http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TaskGplCleanup/u-boot-1.1.2-files for an old and probably incomplete list of such files. Who: Wolfgang Denk and board maintainers