Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:56:16 +0200 From: Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@ci0.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale Message-ID: <20180713095616.GA60331@ci0.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqtpYFt2o7h0dB08dRPiYxtp9iguL5EXnS9iTKxmnN4qg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqMzSEsrw4n-ciBRWP8%2BB5uBBvF872bJZM38ucQDBWoUg@mail.gmail.com> <201807122111.w6CLBjP2080376@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CANCZdfqtpYFt2o7h0dB08dRPiYxtp9iguL5EXnS9iTKxmnN4qg@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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