On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 11:27 -0800, David Brown wrote:

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:

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If someone is willing to step up and make it work, then we can keep it
around.  My only G1 is fried, so I have no way to do anything other
than keep it compiling.

Unfortunately, You can't remove it regardless of whether or not you have
one to test on.. Your job is to do the best you can to keep it working
and maintained. If you don't have one then you can't boot test but you
still have to your best to keep it as close to working as possible.

I was trying to get an idea if anyone uses the target.  If people
want the target around, we can just ignore my patches to remove it.

Please don't ever do this again.

Remember, though, it is a tradeoff.  The msm7201 is fairly different
than the other MSM targets, and adds some effort to the consolidation
work across all of ARM.  I think it would be better, overall, to drop
support for it, if there are no users.

To me that would be a failure in design of the consolidation.. If we
removed all the targets that are "different" we might not have many
targets.

I'm pretty sure that the chips themselves are past end-of-life, so
there isn't going to be any new hardware based on the msm7201.

There's still plenty of them floating around.

I'm curious what kinds of uses people have for their G1s.

Speaking of old targets, it doesn't look like the mahimahi (Nexus One)
ever made it to the point of building.  I have a dev board board on
the msm8650, and the chip support does work.  It'd be nice to get
patches to get the Nexus One target to work as well.  (the
board-mahimahi.c includes a board-mahimahi.h that isn't present).

I'd love to have it working too.

Daniel