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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:56:16 +0200
From: Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@ci0.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale
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Hi,

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:54:09PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> >
> 
> It will, but these two are no-brainers. The last known users of both of
> these sub-ports are done with them (Atmel since 8.2, Xscale maybe longer).
> The one Atmel product I'm aware of will never upgrade past 8.2. The Xscale
> stuff has not been used even longer in any serious way (since the 7
> timeframe, though there were one or two possible single users).
> 
> If there's no objections, I'll just remove. If there are objections, it
> will be easy enough to do under that umbrella.
> 

I think I'm the last known Xscale "user", and I would be more than glad
to see it gone :)

Regards,

Olivier