BSPs for Potential Deprecation

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Feng, Shuchen wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> I have nothing to say about which BSP should be removed from the
> development tree.  However, it will be nice to keep the source
> code of those removed BSPs availble via a download link.
> 
> 
> One might decide to switch to RTEMS because some
> boards  are not supported by a commercial O.S. anymore.
> For example, someone posted E-mail to EPICS to express interest
> in RTEMS-mvme167 a few days ago.   A list of removed BSPs would
> facilitate one to learn if the source code of that BSP is available
> for RTEMS.

They will NOT be removed from the 4.6 release series and if some
brave soul wants to resurrect it, it should be possible.   They
will always be in CVS as well.

> Just a thought.  -- Kate

It is an important point to understand. :)

--joel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com>
> To: rtems-users
> Sent: 10/28/2004 9:16 AM
> Subject: BSPs for Potential Deprecation
> 
> 
> RTEMS has been around a long time now with some BSPs having roots
> that go back nearly 15 years. Boards and CPUs come and go and
> periodically, we have to do some house cleaning.  Old unused BSPs
> which no one has hardware for any longer are a useless maintenance
> burden on the RTEMS Project.  In that light, I am considering
> killing a number of BSPs in the development tree.  If you
> want to have a BSP removed from this list, speak up.
> 
>    + arm/arm_bare_bsp -- template before any other ARM BSP was available
>                          I think it has outlived its usefulness
>    + m68k/dmv152 -- I did this BSP and haven't see a board in years.
>    + m68k/gen68340 -- CPU is out of production AFAIK
>    + mips/p4000 -- VERY old BSP... it would be better to have a BSP
>          for some similar MIPS board that is really available
>    + powerpc/dmv177 -- old, needs to be converted to new exception model
>    + powerpc/ppcn_60x -- same as dmv177
> 
> If you are using one of the above, speak up.  Every BSP really needs
> someone that can confirm the BSP is in use and OK.
> 
> Did I miss any you think need to be killed?
> 


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