Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:32:48 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org> Subject: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 Message-ID: <20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614@bidouilliste.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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>
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614>