Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 21:30:59 +0000 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <embedded@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <20180107213059.GH95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfq9Wixj-1eF4M--xjT0%2BpRzsa2Q5f1gOw4pDdv_XaGP9g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqXO-gCRh3BNvZJ2y8Yqtq2bmu4CJM%2Br0yXAy7GbeuC=g@mail.gmail.com> <20171230114420.3154579c@kan> <20180105225153.GF95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <CANCZdfq9Wixj-1eF4M--xjT0%2BpRzsa2Q5f1gOw4pDdv_XaGP9g@mail.gmail.com>
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--QWpDgw58+k1mSFBj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:59:09PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:44:20AM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > > > 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) > > > > 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 old= er > > > > 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! > > > > > > RMI is another one that should get on chopping block, IMHO. They are > > > impossible to track down in the wild and files were not touched more = or > > > less ever since being committed. They also re-implement too much of t= he > > > code in MI and chances of FreeBSD-current working on the hardware are > > > very, very slim. > > > > Deleting that would clean up a fair number of ifdefs in MIPS MD code. >=20 >=20 > I went ahead and deleted the platform, but was holding off doing ifdef > cleanups from the removed platforms until a suitable period of time had > passed to ensure that I didn't delete one that turns out to be in wide use > leading to a hue and cry for its return. Sounds good. -- Brooks --QWpDgw58+k1mSFBj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaUpGSAAoJEKzQXbSebgfAfScH/jK2Kj519g3y4GRTfULyXPak RsGCVj3qR7GghnPFNbEgJ7dS6pzZswRbcLGsKTOyXKwDzECuyPdaqhg1oF/J4NNW n2QwiouQE7HXNGbPiGpTVdrE17iDxSOVepmkV3epII9EqQT7PgjSX5BUUGsbYKMH DuCAqnHHK/LjXp1a/UkSOiLX12vh9IzrKSeixXwf2nNAhXn5KSTe6tPqA9Kr/8ro tE5lHlqgBcdo9RJq7HSZUGIweEz06fWuuc74fAOnKr/n2iq6SyeUtJr08vmxcLKy YupcWRYJyks+NYUj+SQLIrs8O2z91dsRIt7Igoe1TXiq8yzZtdHxQDyKFVF+J/4= =4iWV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QWpDgw58+k1mSFBj--
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