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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:16:52 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfpcYn_tDwtPf7D=EtrmsY-GELbQ9zke%2BVbMAyV-9RTUWw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
wrote:

> 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.


Atmel does have a A5-based family, but nobody has done the work to port. If
someone does, we can mine the repo for driver code that will be a good
starting point.

Warner



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