Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:17:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <201712310117.vBV1HvNi078762@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <12b36190fcd6918a01d88fd4dbf1a220@megadrive.org>
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> On 2017-12-31 01:46, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < > >> freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > >> > >> > > Can you give me pointers to these boards for adm5120 and IDT? When last I > >> > > tried to get them 5 years ago they were hard to come by and generally > >> > came > >> > > with no more than 32M or 64M of memory. > >> > > > >> > > mips/rt305x has been subsumed by mips/mediatek, so will be deleted w/o > >> > loss > >> > > of functionality. > >> > > >> > Please go back and read very carefully what the person said about > >> > this. It was PLANNED to subsume rt305x into mediatek, but it has > >> > NOT been done yet. At least that is how I read the persons > >> > comments. > >> > >> > >> That's not how I read it. I read it as "this is what we planned, and > >> we've > >> arrived." However, out of an abundance of caution, I sent an email > >> asking > >> for confirmation. Code inspection certainly suggests that my > >> interpretation > >> is correct. > > > > Thanks. Also you might want to ping the router projects folks, > > as I believe many of the mips based routers use this SOC and > > they may have info on which of the implementations work better, > > and/or if the mediatek branch is up to speed and the rt305x > > can just be axed. I know this project is out there someplace, > > but can not find a link for it right now. And I have seen ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > some activity someplace from them in the last 3 or 4 months. > > "router project folks" ? > > Who are you talking about exactly ? I have now found at least one of the links, the zrouter project, http://zrouter.org/projects/zrouter But someone just recently reported on a mailling list that they had updated that work and pointed someplace else, and that is what I am trying to find. > >> Warner > >> > >> > >> > > >> > > I'm curious what benefit sibyte has apart from broadcom? It seems to > >> > > support a super old broadcom chip that's way obsolete that has a bunch of > >> > > errata that need workarounds that aren't present in newer chips. What am > >> > I > >> > > missing? > >> > > > >> > > Warner > >> > > > >> > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:03 AM, Michael Zhilin <mizhka@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > Hi Warner, > >> > > > > >> > > > If I can give my twopence worth, I think that adm5120 & idt are to be > >> > kept > >> > > > for a while, there are few vintage boards (for instance, Mikrotik from > >> > > > Latvia) with good configuration (plenty of flash and RAM), sibyte is > >> > to be > >> > > > part of broadcom and also kept for a while. > >> > > > rt305x is still very popular and cheap (for instance, "3g router" with > >> > > > RT5350 from AliExpress, but I have one, not yet tested). > >> > > > > >> > > > And I don't know what is alchemy. :) > >> > > > > >> > > > Thank you! > >> > > > P.S. Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your > >> > family. > >> > > > > >> > > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > >> I'd like to propose that we eliminate support for the following > >> > before the > >> > > >> FreeBSD 12 branch. > >> > > >> > >> > > >> 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) > >> > > >> > >> > > >> I thought I'd post a heads up here before I proposed this list to > >> > arch@. > >> > > >> > >> > > >> 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. > >> > > >> > >> > > >> If I'm wrong about these being old, or that FreeBSD is no longer > >> > running > >> > > >> on > >> > > >> them, please let me know. Thanks! > >> > > >> > >> > > >> Warner > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > > >> freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > >> > > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > >> > > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@ > >> > freebsd.org" > >> > > >> > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > >> > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > >> > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Rod Grimes > >> > rgrimes@freebsd.org > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > > -- > Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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