Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:52:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Michael Zhilin <mizhka@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <embedded@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <CANCZdfq5i720i2hh75EuUtzg_9E6gmd4m7K=BRMAnhUyVanO2w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF19XB%2B3jsPibHQ31jjS0Gj2gQFnPiU1VCY2tpfMXi1iD1tOJg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqXO-gCRh3BNvZJ2y8Yqtq2bmu4CJM%2Br0yXAy7GbeuC=g@mail.gmail.com> <CAF19XB%2B3jsPibHQ31jjS0Gj2gQFnPiU1VCY2tpfMXi1iD1tOJg@mail.gmail.com>
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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. 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" >> > >
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