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Date:      Sun, 11 Jun 2017 21:28:45 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deorbiting armv4 and armv5 support
Message-ID:  <op.y1ood7ookndu52@53556c9c.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl>
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On Thu, 08 Jun 2017 22:22:51 +0200, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> The pmap in armv4/5 has been broken for years at this point. It basically
> works, but has issues with unaligned buffers. Since these have remained
> unfixed for a long time, and most of the main ARM developers have given  
> up
> trying to fix it, I think it would be best to retire the support rather
> than waste people's time that seem to be working only to discover after a
> lot of effort that it's busted.
>
> Since the consensus at the FreeBSD developer's summit appeared to be  
> 'let's
> let it go'. It would remove the TARGET_ARCH arm and armeb. armv6 would
> remain unaffected (though see a parallel thread).
>
> Warner

What branches are you talking about?

Regards,
Ronald.



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