Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:41:24 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Mori Hiroki <yamori813@yahoo.co.jp>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Build for Intel iXP420 board? Message-ID: <CANCZdfo_-eA3c3woj1=uzp46EESzdb=ZOReudAQUzeB_ZNXyzw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d8d6ffd5d32b9635ee4469306f72303643e2d134.camel@freebsd.org> References: <202012102110.OAA28280@mail.lariat.net> <CANCZdfquMscvtWkYodDyJBU-g3MCKH8ah=HcWV_=oXD%2BR0yVKw@mail.gmail.com> <202012102248.PAA28768@mail.lariat.net> <93397520.123985.1607671093707.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.co.jp> <d8d6ffd5d32b9635ee4469306f72303643e2d134.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 8:34 AM Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 16:18 +0900, Mori Hiroki wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I tried old arm on FreeBSD. I seem FreeBSD old arm > > implimentation is so bad. It's very bad performance. > > > > > > I suggest you use other OS. > > > > Hiroki Mori > > > > Good advice. For many people it didn't work at all (panics and data > corruption). For others it worked, but slowly. Also, many ports could > not be built for it. And we had no resources to debug and maintain it, > so support for it got removed. > Yea, FreeBSD 8 or 9 likely was the best for those devices and those releases are a decade old... the just before we removed it tree totally sucked. I couldn't even run DNSMASQ on my old atmel boards that were quite happy with FreeBSD 8. The panda board I migrated to worked great... though it died and I moved to some generic allwinner board... Warner -- Ian > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> > > > To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> > > > Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> > > > Date: 2020/12/11, Fri 07:48 > > > Subject: Re: Build for Intel iXP420 board? > > > > > > FreeBSD 9 or 10! These are just old enough that I can't find > > > archives. Were > > > Avila images ever published in binary form, or would I have to set > > > up a > > > development machine, check out old sources, and cross-build? > > > > > > --Brett Glass > > > > > > > > > At 02:25 PM 12/10/2020, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > > > FreeBSD 9 or 10 or maybe 11 is your best bet. 'gateworks' I > > > > think > > > > is what you want to search for in the sources, not avila, but > > > > maybe you can use both to find them. The armv5 port was removed > > > > from FreeBSD because it had bit rotted too much. I used to run > > > > FreeBSD 8 on these boards as a wireless access point shortly > > > > after > > > > Sam committed the code to the tree. I've had good luck with > > > > FreeBSD stable/10 on other arm gear, but there's been reports of > > > > issues on stable/10 with unaligned I/O causing problems for some > > > > cache topologies. > > > > > > > > Warner=C4=80 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > > freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > > " > > > >
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