Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:30:04 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <embedded@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <20171230173004.5bdb22887a082063b697bccd@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqXO-gCRh3BNvZJ2y8Yqtq2bmu4CJM%2Br0yXAy7GbeuC=g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqXO-gCRh3BNvZJ2y8Yqtq2bmu4CJM%2Br0yXAy7GbeuC=g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:10:11 -0700 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) Olimex still sell rt5350 board (those two are quite the same SoC) : https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/RT5350F/RT5350F-OLinuXino/open-source-hardware I did port FreeBSD on it almost three years ago (https://www.bidouilliste.com/blog/2015/07/22/FreeBSD-on-Olimex-RT5350F-OLinuXino/ ) but I don't remember if any of my code when into the tree but we have support from it based on the work from sgalabov@ It doesn't mean I've objecting to the removal, I have no interest in mips and I don't even know the actual support on it. > 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" -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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