From owner-freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Sat Dec 30 12:03:03 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F0CEB8BC3; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:03:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mizhka@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qk0-x230.google.com (mail-qk0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C57E07A6C8; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mizhka@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qk0-x230.google.com with SMTP id o126so42843271qke.12; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 04:03:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=hbiRqFmfbCHRI6w79RDNFZPm6Pq7vc90JE+64wsrzR4=; b=f+eJsFuI+Td/qUKooZGi3faIQ0JJx5AK/RzeDMGPJk/aVUpQxppPb7M/YN5aXPTnE+ hS1j5R43Zf9dDjDAKfJNOm+saACWE/Q34/z0JE0WDVUZzZeC/yiiH8rviIxvmw1+Kxnu 4bc1bkO23q1RDecyqjVH4zygLVvzLipXVqUCZLdc9rz0nlvNpELt5Eu6kE3wQEkjEzm7 X2D5k8jmnQLr24LQGr/e4aU+KUwExTMtjF+FJ+t6uFKFvd51RH9EhK80N8gtMH/k7jQn HQ8UXMKWk945vd4rfUk+JwYmLJPstkCGPlkxlle264KCfBW/waTowBaX1tn73mNYBvt+ 1GKA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=hbiRqFmfbCHRI6w79RDNFZPm6Pq7vc90JE+64wsrzR4=; b=MCRP2jMMWtq4H0Nd+1gMBVAvM/PVTsWkt1aeRIIs44gMsz8N3xXB7692z2nY3Jccvh 0EkzsTYcqvhr4b3Pa84R3bLgiED36tcnoQXqUS+oqnoteI2m4foF+a2rD1lX+vAy/vvj HHady8a+IgytfdZvL2IIw11vsbIMxv65BWpWjepV9BXg+t/pE+Uoaz+mQE8x6quc9B8p /udTJSYz4Sz6yHRJGHIz3WumOf23W28RPerc7/Q5JoC9NYfXiLr5dMj2E6lHb8I5UZOi N/37vGOzmMoHVf5Thmv4Ot1qQU0Uj9E7e4Sxa+1B5Q4Nb4aPUFMpYy4GACXgwXdbCuX2 rrSQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mJ7PRMk0gJ9ZVDMeyohhJPF+g4i4OI7x2n7BazJqHYMEU8S4ctq HwyPiaeA7BP9HepfERjHmWxN2EeZ3p/hKnJaPJPlAmHO X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBou1+W8vfX6v8STNElnTAg8uTjK+ZtCUKZ2LcMqXnRCp44D1m87j4JwcKuQTqdGp0J0nqhlSeaX9tzzhQYZ6Fk0= X-Received: by 10.55.190.135 with SMTP id o129mr46736141qkf.282.1514635381873; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 04:03:01 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.89.244 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 04:03:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Michael Zhilin Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:03:01 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning To: Warner Losh Cc: "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" , Adrian Chadd , Robert Watson , John Baldwin , Emmanuel Vadot Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:03:03 -0000 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 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" >