From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Tue Jun 19 14:13:25 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B777B101C417 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.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 5668282B33 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 16BCD101C413; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04038101C412 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66AE582B2F; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:13:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id w5JED9Ee069694; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd-rwg@localhost) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id w5JED9TS069693; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <201806191413.w5JED9TS069693@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 In-Reply-To: To: Kyle Evans Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:13:09 -0700 (PDT) CC: ticso@cicely.de, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:13:25 -0000 > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 02:43:52PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > >> I have all these boards... > >> > >> But they are getting old and nearly are unobtanium these days. Were it not > >> for the clocks thing, they'd be fine to run -current (I have a slightly pre > >> new clock version running on a couple of boards). I think I'm with you: we > >> need a maintainer who has done the work to bring them up to date, or they > >> need to go. > > > > Would be sad to see A20 go, it was such a popular SoC and I own a couple > > of boards with them, but I also don't have the time to help maintaining the > > code. > > Hi, > > Consider A20 off the chopping block- I want my Banana Pi R1 to > eventually be useful, so I added some basic clock support and we > should boot on these things again. > > A10 probably won't go away unless we actually have reported problems- > it's a similar enough SoC to the A20 that all of the clocks currently > implemented should be the same between the two based on my reading of > the documentation. I don't actually have any A10-based boards, though, > so I can't volunteer to explicitly maintain/test it. If an A10 board landed in your mailbox would you be willing to keep it inline with your A20 work? > Thanks, > Kyle Evans -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org