Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:34:22 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <embedded@freebsd.org>, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Message-ID: <daba3d34e4dd9f149efed4e413655647@megadrive.org> In-Reply-To: <201712310028.vBV0SWFO078434@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201712310028.vBV0SWFO078434@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On 2017-12-31 01:28, Rodney W. Grimes 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. Please go back and read very carefully what the person said about this. If you cannot read mail please read code, the compat data in https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/mips/mediatek/mtk_soc.c?revision=317873&view=markup#l55 tell me that sys/mips/mediatek support this SoC. > >> 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" >> -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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