[ECOS] 2 bitrotting flash drivers

Gary Thomas gary@mlbassoc.com
Fri Aug 6 12:54:00 GMT 2004


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.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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