From owner-freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Fri Jan 5 22:51:55 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 36893EA42F4 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:55 +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 201F76333E for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 1F74DEA42F2; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:55 +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 1EFC2EA42F0; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:55 +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 EC6126333C; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: by spindle.one-eyed-alien.net (Postfix, from userid 3001) id D9ED15A9F17; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:51:53 +0000 From: Brooks Davis To: Alexander Kabaev Cc: Warner Losh , "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" , Robert Watson , "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <20180105225153.GF95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20171230114420.3154579c@kan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="N1GIdlSm9i+YlY4t" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171230114420.3154579c@kan> 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 22:51:55 -0000 --N1GIdlSm9i+YlY4t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:44:20AM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:10:11 -0700 > Warner Losh wrote: >=20 > > I'd like to propose that we eliminate support for the following > > before the FreeBSD 12 branch. > >=20 > > 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) > >=20 > > I thought I'd post a heads up here before I proposed this list to > > arch@. > >=20 > > We have enough exemplars these days we don't need to keep these older > > ports around as examples anymore, and I have my doubts if we even > > work on these boards anymore. > >=20 > > If I'm wrong about these being old, or that FreeBSD is no longer > > running on them, please let me know. Thanks! >=20 > 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 the > 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. -- Brooks --N1GIdlSm9i+YlY4t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaUAGIAAoJEKzQXbSebgfA+rwH/jXegdhnTZZrO91lqZjUHuPr iG/J+EJUoSh0nccbioasoWk3pemF6EdvLMzZI1a+cUgg2mY39Zkx8MAgKn/dvdVo VBgREgjuRKOHKJur+3RfqXgVOd2u+gVZjBJ+J4T+nqw49yJinUv/D0wmqvD2qhru lALPUvni3xbAsZNWZwLZaL2rOuH8S6vrFW0pR/7PIqK3CXDlwNhU0ctsrFY//U2z fFu1Wb0uKr9dQ+bI7bVgwmc40/ZiqtNPfHqB3wtbhFYafghn2qpQez5h5GP25dEE 1BjTkwg9nY0MEjD6DiVEH96arZ+BE2bwN9/sEhlPQd4gxpMZDwKuSNUrAiuDbo0= =h2ns -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --N1GIdlSm9i+YlY4t--