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Re: 2 bitrotting flash drivers
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Jani Monoses <jani at iv dot ro>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 06:54:06 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] 2 bitrotting flash drivers
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <20040806154838.762eddd8.jani@iv.ro>
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 06:48, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello
>
> I brought this up before, but got no definite answer
>
> the devs/flash/arm/at91 and devs/flash/intel/bootblock drivers are
>
> 1) no longer used by code in CVS
> 2) have better replacements (AT29xx, AT49xx, strata and 28Fxxx)
> 3) intentionally not updated to some recent changes (.2ram sections, caches)
> 4) add noise to grep and cscope data
>
> If for some reason one would want them the Attic would be a good place to find
> them
>
> So soes anybody have strong feelings against deleting them from the tree?
If they are no longer used and have true replacements, then yes, remove
them. Be sure and remove them from ecos.db as well.
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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates
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