Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:24:26 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 Message-ID: <CANCZdfqZt%2ByrndxNxNowyGv_d6YJqTb410oKF=qOMKpPZE=Dzg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201806200451.w5K4peq1072812@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <20180620035146.GC29485@lonesome.com> <201806200451.w5K4peq1072812@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:51 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > So now that Kyle has volunteered to look after A20, I'd like to > > continue this thread: > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:32:48PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > > > I want to remove A31 support for FreeBSD 12: > > > - My A31 board (BananapiM1) just died today after a long time of being > > > my arm32 reference board. > > > > Is someone willing to pick up A31, or should we still phase it out? > > > > > - I don't want the code to stay like the old 32 bits rockchip or > > > amlogic code that can't even boot nowadays. > > > > I think this would be a good time to drop support for things that have > > gotten into this state. Do you have a complete list? Does anyone else > > have any objections? > > > > fwiw, I've updated the wiki to note that A20 will continue to be > > supported, and A10 probably will be. > > Kyle Evans who stepped up to do the A20 has agreed to take on > the A10 if I get him an appropriate board. We (Kyle and I) have > come to the decision that this should be a CubieBoard 1. I > am presently hunting the back dark corners for one, they are > avaliable on ebay here and there for not too much money still > as well. > I'm almost positive I have an A10 based board. It's either the CubieBoard or the MarsBoard. Both of which are just very lightly re-warmed reference designs. Then again, they are only $50 on ebay. The biggest issue I see is that it's the only Allwinner board to be single core. Warner
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