[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:06:00 +0200
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:

> >>>>> "Hans-Christian" == Hans-Christian Egtvedt
> >>>>> <hans-christian.egtvedt at atmel.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Hans-Christian> Last working version for AVR32 is 2008.10 :/ The
>  Hans-Christian> 2009.01 release had another issue, which Håvard just
>  Hans-Christian> spotted before release, too late to do the
>  Hans-Christian> fix.
> 
> Do you mean the u-boot-2009.01-include_asm-avr32_io.h.patch.avr32 fix?
> 

Probably, I've not used upstream BR for some time.

>  Hans-Christian> 2009.03 is broken regarding JFFS2, at least for
> 
> So it's a known issue? Who's working on it? I didn't notice it on the
> u-boot list (I only skim that list, so that might be why though).
> 

Yes, it was reported initially as

Subject: JFFS2 scanning bug

Then

Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Fix JFFS2 NOR sector size routine

And anything which propagated from that. I did not stick around to see
the final conclusion.

>  Hans-Christian> At least make 2008.10 available, and lets hope
>  Hans-Christian> 2009.05 can make us dump all the previous ones.
> 
> Or alternatively backport the fix to 2009.03 so we don't end up with 4
> versions (8/10, 9/1, 9/3 and 9/5).
> 

Mmm, 2009.05 will hopefully be nice and flying.

-- 
Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt