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Authored by manu on Jul 12 2018, 9:56 AM.
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Those board are mostly obsolete (like gumstix or pandaboard) or
have other images where overwriting u-boot is enough.

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Does this mean that cubox-humingboard images will no longer be available for download?

In D16237#344539, @ian wrote:

Does this mean that cubox-humingboard images will no longer be available for download?

Yeah.
It is still popular enough so we leave it ?

In D16237#344541, @manu wrote:
In D16237#344539, @ian wrote:

Does this mean that cubox-humingboard images will no longer be available for download?

Yeah.
It is still popular enough so we leave it ?

Yeah. In the imx6 world there are basically two popular product lines of consumer/hobbyist boards: wandboard, and cubox/hummingboard (other product lines tend to be aimed more at OEMs and embedded systems products).

I think it is true that the only difference between a wandboard image and a cubox image is the uboot. I don't know if there's some way to leverage that to generate two downloadable images from one build to save time.

Hmmm, I have all these boards except the GUMSTIX :).

Having said that, if the arm install image can create these from a generic image, I'm good.

Except maybe the hummingboard one

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 12 2018, 2:52 PM
In D16237#344541, @manu wrote:
In D16237#344539, @ian wrote:

Does this mean that cubox-humingboard images will no longer be available for download?

Yeah.
It is still popular enough so we leave it ?

Personally, I'm in the camp of "why remove supported hardware for the sake of removing supported hardware?"

I don't really see it as "extra" work to keep support, unless however there is special edge-cases in code in the tree that makes it more difficult to retain these boards.