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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:50:59 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Michael Zhilin <mizhka@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.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:  <20180105225059.GE95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAF19XB%2B3jsPibHQ31jjS0Gj2gQFnPiU1VCY2tpfMXi1iD1tOJg@mail.gmail.com>
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The sibyte port is unlikely to work in practice.  I cribbed SMP stuff
=66rom it for BERI and quite a bit of that was suspect.

-- Brooks

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 03:03:01PM +0300, Michael Zhilin wrote:
> Hi Warner,
>=20
> 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).
>=20
> And I don't know what is alchemy. :)
>=20
> Thank you!
> P.S. Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
>=20
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>=20
> > 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 p=
orts
> > around as examples anymore, and I have my doubts if we even work on the=
se
> > boards anymore.
> >
> > If I'm wrong about these being old, or that FreeBSD is no longer runnin=
g on
> > them, please let me know. Thanks!
> >
> > Warner
> > _______________________________________________
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> > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips
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> >
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>=20

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