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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale
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> I'd like to retire Atmel and Xscale support prior to 12. The atmel stuff
> has been dodgy for a long time and generally lacks the memory to run
> FreeBSD well. We have no current users of it.
> 
> The Xscale stuff is old enough to not be relevant. There's no known users.
> Part of it is already set to go with the big endian stuff, but is there a
> reason to keep the rest?

I thought a depreciation policy was in process to help deal with
all of these.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org