Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:51:57 -0300 From: Rogiel Sulzbach <rogiel@rogiel.com> To: "=?utf-8?Q?freebsd-arm=40freebsd.org?=" <arm@freebsd.org>, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Subject: Re: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 Message-ID: <1270d2d0-7f10-4454-af30-d5d62ec5bd73@Spark> In-Reply-To: <20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614@bidouilliste.com> References: <20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614@bidouilliste.com>
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Hello Emmanuel, we have recently considered to switching from i.MX6 to a A20 for cost reasons. I have just bought a Banana Pi with an A20 to test performance and compare it to the Wandboard. The problem with H3 (and all other better socs) is the lack of a proper SATA controller. A real controller is only available in A10/A20 SoCs, all others go through a horrible SATA-to-USB adapter that is horribly slow. Anyway, in case we decide to switch, I can keep the A20 running -CURRENT. I might need some help getting started since I do not have a lot of experience in the kernel, other than the AHCI driver for the imx. On Jun 12, 2018, 5:33 PM -0300, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, wrote: > > Hello arm@ > > I don't like to send this email but ... > > I want to remove A10/A20/A31 support for FreeBSD 12, here is the > reason why : > > - I don't have time to maintain thoses SoC > - For A10/A20 we currently don't boot on it since it requires new > clocks binding (handled by aw_ccung) and I have no time to do the > switch. > - H3 (which is 32bits too) is way better in term of performance and > price, you can buy a "good" $10 board while getting an A20 will cost > you more for some reason. > - My A31 board (BananapiM1) just died today after a long time of being > my arm32 reference board. > - I don't want the code to stay like the old 32 bits rockchip or > amlogic code that can't even boot nowadays. > > If someone want to step up and convert A10/A20 to ccung I'll be > glad to help/review but if no one step up it's unreasonable for me to > support those right now and I prefer to remove completely the support. > > The plan is to remove support in one month (July 12th) if there is no > volunteer to update the current code. > > Cheers, > > -- > Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@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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