From owner-freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Fri Jan 5 22:51:01 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD44EA4190 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0055B3E33 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id F0D2AEA4180; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: embedded@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05CFEA417E; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from spindle.one-eyed-alien.net (spindle.one-eyed-alien.net [199.48.129.229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C883D3E32; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: by spindle.one-eyed-alien.net (Postfix, from userid 3001) id 2DBC65A9F15; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:50:59 +0000 From: Brooks Davis To: Michael Zhilin Cc: Warner Losh , Emmanuel Vadot , "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" , Robert Watson , "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <20180105225059.GE95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 22:51:01 -0000 --eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >=20 --eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaUAFSAAoJEKzQXbSebgfArPEH/2kNkl5127NE8Km2CYSW4SI8 qIfMl8Sn5riAqhCP3SttN4AfJVkvg9QhESDq8Bl0xdxeKUHamqBoZnoPRZQrD73C OXlfZD6lk4MfEg1Fu1PSLgKlPP7mccyGYKlKAmRJxxxTjLXaWPd6YjSkCJbXZ0CH qLnxI5Mqc3zlkPOgES5f2cHU310f0sOl9EGty7XDZrkY4+TzPAOFZEEJIYGSDQKe v11fAiTz3XUH3fd2rzxLi+crFVc+mLDHYg92AI0QM2Al70JYeXqU6Ki9u0SpXP1K tC9SGcI5k21R+h90elWxEeh/nnRdPUhOxiM5wMvpT/BqGKXccu7BWGeRcc7tZQY= =cWLp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ--