Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:59:09 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> 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: <CANCZdfq9Wixj-1eF4M--xjT0%2BpRzsa2Q5f1gOw4pDdv_XaGP9g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180105225153.GF95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <CANCZdfqXO-gCRh3BNvZJ2y8Yqtq2bmu4CJM%2Br0yXAy7GbeuC=g@mail.gmail.com> <20171230114420.3154579c@kan> <20180105225153.GF95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 older > > > 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 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. 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. Warner
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