Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:12:11 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale Message-ID: <20180713171210.GD40394@cicely7.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqMzSEsrw4n-ciBRWP8%2BB5uBBvF872bJZM38ucQDBWoUg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqMzSEsrw4n-ciBRWP8%2BB5uBBvF872bJZM38ucQDBWoUg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:15:02PM -0600, Warner Losh 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. [1]beaver.cicely.de> uname -a FreeBSD beaver.cicely.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 22 07:52:33 CET 2009 ticso@beaver.cicely.de:/mnt2/arm-2009-04-17/head/sys/arm/compile/BEAVER arm But yes, I think it is - unfortunately - a dead end with them and if I ever intend to go for a more recent FreeBSD version I will also change the hardware. > 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? -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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