Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:53 +0000 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <embedded@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <20180105225153.GF95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20171230114420.3154579c@kan> References: <CANCZdfqXO-gCRh3BNvZJ2y8Yqtq2bmu4CJM%2Br0yXAy7GbeuC=g@mail.gmail.com> <20171230114420.3154579c@kan>
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--N1GIdlSm9i+YlY4t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:44:20AM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:10:11 -0700 > Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >=20 > > I'd like to propose that we eliminate support for the following > > before the FreeBSD 12 branch. > >=20 > > adm5120 (most boards don't have enough memory, very old) > > alchemy (the au1xxxx port never really was finished, and boards lack > > memory, very old) > > idt (only a few boards worked, most are long obsolete) > > rt305x (raylink kit is now out dated, at least I think so) > > sibyte (long obsolete, hard to get hardware) > >=20 > > I thought I'd post a heads up here before I proposed this list to > > arch@. > >=20 > > We have enough exemplars these days we don't need to keep these older > > ports around as examples anymore, and I have my doubts if we even > > work on these boards anymore. > >=20 > > If I'm wrong about these being old, or that FreeBSD is no longer > > running on them, please let me know. Thanks! >=20 > RMI is another one that should get on chopping block, IMHO. They are > impossible to track down in the wild and files were not touched more or > less ever since being committed. They also re-implement too much of the > code in MI and chances of FreeBSD-current working on the hardware are > very, very slim. Deleting that would clean up a fair number of ifdefs in MIPS MD code. -- Brooks --N1GIdlSm9i+YlY4t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaUAGIAAoJEKzQXbSebgfA+rwH/jXegdhnTZZrO91lqZjUHuPr iG/J+EJUoSh0nccbioasoWk3pemF6EdvLMzZI1a+cUgg2mY39Zkx8MAgKn/dvdVo VBgREgjuRKOHKJur+3RfqXgVOd2u+gVZjBJ+J4T+nqw49yJinUv/D0wmqvD2qhru lALPUvni3xbAsZNWZwLZaL2rOuH8S6vrFW0pR/7PIqK3CXDlwNhU0ctsrFY//U2z fFu1Wb0uKr9dQ+bI7bVgwmc40/ZiqtNPfHqB3wtbhFYafghn2qpQez5h5GP25dEE 1BjTkwg9nY0MEjD6DiVEH96arZ+BE2bwN9/sEhlPQd4gxpMZDwKuSNUrAiuDbo0= =h2ns -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --N1GIdlSm9i+YlY4t--
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