Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-21 Thread Joel Sherrill
On 10/21/2015 12:41 AM, Thomas Dörfler wrote: I have discussed dropping BSPs from support and from a technical point I fully agree that this must be done. We should have some sort of active BSPs which are regularily tested. On the other hand, RTEMS can only live and grow, if it is attrative en

Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-20 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 21/10/15 01:24, Chris Johns wrote: On 21/10/2015 12:56 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: On 10/20/2015 6:15 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: Maybe we should build a list of BSP directories and find maintainers for each directory in some time frame. Then remove all BSPs without a maintainer. That is one

Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-20 Thread Thomas Dörfler
I have discussed dropping BSPs from support and from a technical point I fully agree that this must be done. We should have some sort of active BSPs which are regularily tested. On the other hand, RTEMS can only live and grow, if it is attrative enough for new users. Therefore we should not si

Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-20 Thread Chris Johns
On 21/10/2015 12:56 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: > On 10/20/2015 6:15 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: >> Maybe we should build a list of BSP directories and find maintainers for >> each directory in some time frame. Then remove all BSPs without a >> maintainer. > > That is one approach. Another is defining

Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-20 Thread Joel Sherrill
On 10/20/2015 6:15 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: Hallo, I would remove all 16-bit or less targets. I previously posted suggesting the avr, h8300, and m32r be removed. No one has commented so far. I want to write two wiki pages as I go. One on removing a BSP and another on removing an architec

Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-20 Thread Sebastian Huber
Hallo, I would remove all 16-bit or less targets. Maybe we should build a list of BSP directories and find maintainers for each directory in some time frame. Then remove all BSPs without a maintainer. On 14/10/15 02:06, Joel Sherrill wrote: Hi I am looking for suggestions on BSPs to remove

Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-13 Thread Joel Sherrill
On October 13, 2015 8:24:32 PM CDT, Chris Johns wrote: >On 14/10/2015 11:06 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: >> I am looking for suggestions on BSPs to remove. If you >> have used a BSP in the past but no longer use it, please >> speak up. BSPs with no users are baggage to the project. >> >> If you hav

Re: Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-13 Thread Chris Johns
On 14/10/2015 11:06 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: > I am looking for suggestions on BSPs to remove. If you > have used a BSP in the past but no longer use it, please > speak up. BSPs with no users are baggage to the project. > > If you have suggestions for other reasons, please speak up > as well. EOLe

Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

2015-10-13 Thread Joel Sherrill
Hi I am looking for suggestions on BSPs to remove. If you have used a BSP in the past but no longer use it, please speak up. BSPs with no users are baggage to the project. If you have suggestions for other reasons, please speak up as well. EOLed boards that no one can have, custom variants that