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CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC: document feature removal

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk 13 years ago
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 The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
 removed from the U-Boot source tree.  Every entry should contain what
 exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed,
-and who is going to be doing the work.  When the feature is removed
+and who is going to be doing the work.	When the feature is removed
 from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this
 file.
 
+---------------------------
+What:	CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC option
+When:	After Release 2011.03
+
+Why:	The implementation of U-Boot for the ARM architecture has
+	been reworked to support relocation. This allows to
+	efficiently use the same U-Boot binary image on systems with
+	different RAM sizes, and brings the implementation much more
+	in line with the code used for example on Power Architecture
+	systems (eventually allowing to merge into common code). This
+	seems especailly interesting now that ARM is getting Device
+	Tree support as well.
+
+	All ARM boards need to be adapted to this new code, which
+	requires testing on the actual hardware, so this is a task
+	for the respective board maintainers or other users.
+
+	Please see the commit message of commit f1d2b31 for details:
+
+	http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f1d2b31
+
+	Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed
+	after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been
+	converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are
+	considered unmaintained and without interest for the
+	community and will be removed as well.
+
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 What:	CONFIG_NET_MULTI option