Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:04:49 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <12b36190fcd6918a01d88fd4dbf1a220@megadrive.org> In-Reply-To: <201712310046.vBV0kLQ7078533@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201712310046.vBV0kLQ7078533@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On 2017-12-31 01:46, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < >> freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: >> >> > > Can you give me pointers to these boards for adm5120 and IDT? When last I >> > > tried to get them 5 years ago they were hard to come by and generally >> > came >> > > with no more than 32M or 64M of memory. >> > > >> > > mips/rt305x has been subsumed by mips/mediatek, so will be deleted w/o >> > loss >> > > of functionality. >> > >> > Please go back and read very carefully what the person said about >> > this. It was PLANNED to subsume rt305x into mediatek, but it has >> > NOT been done yet. At least that is how I read the persons >> > comments. >> >> >> That's not how I read it. I read it as "this is what we planned, and >> we've >> arrived." However, out of an abundance of caution, I sent an email >> asking >> for confirmation. Code inspection certainly suggests that my >> interpretation >> is correct. > > Thanks. Also you might want to ping the router projects folks, > as I believe many of the mips based routers use this SOC and > they may have info on which of the implementations work better, > and/or if the mediatek branch is up to speed and the rt305x > can just be axed. I know this project is out there someplace, > but can not find a link for it right now. And I have seen > some activity someplace from them in the last 3 or 4 months. "router project folks" ? Who are you talking about exactly ? >> Warner >> >> >> > >> > > I'm curious what benefit sibyte has apart from broadcom? It seems to >> > > support a super old broadcom chip that's way obsolete that has a bunch of >> > > errata that need workarounds that aren't present in newer chips. What am >> > I >> > > missing? >> > > >> > > Warner >> > > >> > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:03 AM, Michael Zhilin <mizhka@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hi Warner, >> > > > >> > > > If I can give my twopence worth, I think that adm5120 & idt are to be >> > kept >> > > > for a while, there are few vintage boards (for instance, Mikrotik from >> > > > Latvia) with good configuration (plenty of flash and RAM), sibyte is >> > to be >> > > > part of broadcom and also kept for a while. >> > > > rt305x is still very popular and cheap (for instance, "3g router" with >> > > > RT5350 from AliExpress, but I have one, not yet tested). >> > > > >> > > > And I don't know what is alchemy. :) >> > > > >> > > > Thank you! >> > > > P.S. Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your >> > family. >> > > > >> > > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> I'd like to propose that we eliminate support for the following >> > before the >> > > >> FreeBSD 12 branch. >> > > >> >> > > >> adm5120 (most boards don't have enough memory, very old) >> > > >> alchemy (the au1xxxx port never really was finished, and boards lack >> > > >> memory, very old) >> > > >> idt (only a few boards worked, most are long obsolete) >> > > >> rt305x (raylink kit is now out dated, at least I think so) >> > > >> sibyte (long obsolete, hard to get hardware) >> > > >> >> > > >> I thought I'd post a heads up here before I proposed this list to >> > arch@. >> > > >> >> > > >> We have enough exemplars these days we don't need to keep these older >> > > >> ports >> > > >> around as examples anymore, and I have my doubts if we even work on >> > these >> > > >> boards anymore. >> > > >> >> > > >> If I'm wrong about these being old, or that FreeBSD is no longer >> > running >> > > >> on >> > > >> them, please let me know. Thanks! >> > > >> >> > > >> Warner >> > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > > >> freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list >> > > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips >> > > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@ >> > freebsd.org" >> > > >> >> > > > >> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list >> > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips >> > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > Rod Grimes >> > rgrimes@freebsd.org >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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