BSP Wiki Clean Up

Mon Mar 16 18:34:49 UTC 2020

The updated list of to be removed BSPs. Please check:
To be removed BSPs

ARM BSPs
1) Cogent CSB637 --csb637
2) Cogent Kit637_v6 -- kit637 v6
3) GamePark? Holdings GP2X -- gp2x

Motorola M68xxx and Coldfire BSPs
1) Generic MC68302 -- gen68302
2) ods68302

MIPS BSPs
1) Generic IDT 4600 -- p4000
2) Generic IDT 4650 -- p4650

PowerPC BSPs
1) BAE RAD750 3U and 6U -- rad750
2) DY-4 DMV177 -- dmv177?
3) Frasca ETHCOMM -- eth comm
4) Generic PPC405 -- gen405
5) IMD Helas 403 -- helas403?
6) Motorola MVME2400 -- mvme2400?
7) Motorola MVME2600 -- mvme2600
8) Motorola MVME2700 -- mvme2700

SPARC BSPs
1) SPARC Instruction Simulator (sis) -- obsoleted in 5.1.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:31 PM Mritunjay Sharma <
mritunjaysharma394 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, actually I looked only under
> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/arm/
> <https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/arm/rtl22xx/config> (and others
> like i386) and now that I know that I have to look deeper, will make a
> correction and send it here.
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:23 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 12:01 PM Mritunjay Sharma <
>> mritunjaysharma394 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Working on #3905 (Clean up BSP Wiki Pages), I have made a list of BSPs
>>> that are not now part of the source tree and recommending them to delete
>>> them and I would like to @rtems-devel at rtems.org <devel at rtems.org> to
>>> have a look of it :
>>>
>>> To be removed BSPs
>>>
>>
>> I agree with some of these but wonder how you are making the present or
>> not determination. I think at least rtl22xx_t is present as a variant of
>> rtl22xx. Look in it's config directory.
>>
>> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/arm/rtl22xx/config
>>
>>>
>>> ARM BSPs
>>> 1) Cogent CSB637 --csb637
>>> 2) Cogent Kit637_v6 -- kit637 v6
>>> 3) RTL22xx_t (Philips/NXP ARM7 in Thumb mode) -- rtl22xx t
>>> 4) GamePark? Holdings GP2X -- gp2x
>>> 5) NXP LPC17XX (pin compatible to LPC24XX with ARM Cortex-M3 core) ?
>>> 6) NXP LPC40XX (pin compatible to LPC24XX with ARM Cortex-M4 core) ?
>>> 7) Stellaris LaunchPad? XL -- LM4F120
>>> 8) STM32F105
>>>
>>> Motorola M68xxx and Coldfire BSPs
>>> 1) Generic MC68302 -- gen68302
>>> 2) Motorola MVME162LX -- mvme162lx
>>> 3) ods68302
>>>
>>> MIPS BSPs
>>> 1) Generic IDT 4600 -- p4000
>>> 2) Generic IDT 4650 -- p4650
>>>
>>> PowerPC BSPs
>>> 1) BAE RAD750 3U and 6U -- rad750
>>> 2) DY-4 DMV177 -- dmv177?
>>> 3) Frasca ETHCOMM -- eth comm
>>> 4) Freescale MPC5554 --Phycore mpc5554?
>>> 5) Freescale MPC5674FEVB -- MPC5674FEVB
>>> 6) Generic PPC405 -- gen405
>>> 7) IMD Helas 403 -- helas403?
>>> 8) Motorola MCP750 -- mcp750
>>> 9) Motorola/Phytec? Phycore MCP5554 Phycore mpc5554
>>> 10)Motorola MTX603e -- mtx603e
>>> 11)Motorola MVME2100 -- mvme2100
>>> 12)Motorola MVME2307 -- mvme2307
>>> 13)Motorola MVME2400 -- mvme2400?
>>> 14)Motorola MVME2600 -- mvme2600
>>> 15)Motorola MVME2700 -- mvme2700
>>>
>>> SPARC BSPs
>>> 1) SPARC Instruction Simulator (sis) -- obsoleted in 5.1.
>>>
>>> Please tell if I have add to link to them also.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mritunjay
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 10:17 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:12 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:55 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:05 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I put devel@ back on
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 2:23 PM Mritunjay Sharma <
>>>>>> mritunjaysharma394 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Hi,
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> I am very much willing to help with this thing. Being a bit new to
>>>>>> the community, I just wanted to know that while deleting the wiki content
>>>>>> on obsolete BSPs, do I need to report it before deleting and create a
>>>>>> ticket for it or I can straightaway delete it?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I hate to start with use your judgement but...
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > You could just ask on the list for deletion confirmation. My
>>>>>> impression is that a deletion pass will be quick.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > For moving content to rtems-docs, that will be patches which need
>>>>>> review. So post those.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > And I suspect some BSPs will have pages that are useless stubs. Ask
>>>>>> about just deleting instead of converting them.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks for pitching in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would prefer to have an analysis of the difference between what has
>>>>>> been migrated already
>>>>>> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/bsps/index.html versus
>>>>>> what is in the wiki. If some content needs to move out of the wiki,
>>>>>> then a patch to add it to the docs would be good, then we could
>>>>>> discuss on the list whether or not to move that content or to delete
>>>>>> it.  If content has been migrated or the migration discussion leads to
>>>>>> a decision to delete, then we should remove that page. Removing a page
>>>>>> requires an admin privilege, so I think a list of pages to be removed
>>>>>> should be maintained somewhere like
>>>>>> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/TBR/BSP
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have made a sweep to delete all text which has links to non-existent
>>>>> pages
>>>>> since those do not have to be reviewed.
>>>>>
>>>>> My next pass is to delete all pages for BSPs and ports that have been
>>>>> removed.
>>>>> That is a simple review process.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have completed this also.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> After that, what should be left is a list of pages which need manual
>>>>> review to
>>>>> extract/convert useful content to the Users Guide. This should be one
>>>>> patch
>>>>> and email per BSP/Wiki page.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This should be ready to dig into. I suspect that a number of the BSP
>>>> pages are
>>>> marginal having been written by Google Code-In students. If they just
>>>> have
>>>> hardware descriptions from vendor pages and no howtos, what do we want
>>>> to do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I also found this list:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/TBR/UserManual which has a variety of
>>>>> topic
>>>>> pages which need review and either deleted or merged into the
>>>>> appropriate
>>>>> documentation.
>>>>>
>>>>> --joel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>>>> >> Mritunjay
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:30 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> Hi
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> GSoC students and those who are unfortunately self-quarrantined
>>>>>> looking for something to do could really help by reviewing the wiki BSP
>>>>>> pages and helping move the current content to the Users Guide.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> The wiki includes an incomplete and out of date list of BSPs and
>>>>>> architectures that have been removed.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> Wiki is here:
>>>>>> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/TBR/Website/Board_Support_Packages
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> Users Guide is in the rtems-docs repo and viewable online at
>>>>>> docs.rtems.org.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> I think much of the effort is quite straight forward. First pass
>>>>>> is to delete wiki content that is on obsolete bsps and architectures.
>>>>>> Delete bullets with links to no-existent pages. Introduction text on top
>>>>>> page is likely useful to merge. Then remaining BSPs which are in the tree
>>>>>> and have pages need the content reviewed and merged into users guide.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> --joel
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> >>> devel mailing list
>>>>>> >>> devel at rtems.org
>>>>>> >>> http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>>>>>> >
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>>>>>> > devel at rtems.org
>>>>>> > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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