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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:33:57 -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
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

Yes. I have one running 11.0 release right now... I should upgrade that to
11.2 for testing

Warner



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