From owner-freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Sun Dec 31 00:34:27 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604FBEB5442 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423EE7574A for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 3E41BEB543F; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:34:27 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: embedded@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D941EB543E; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mail.blih.net (mail.blih.net [212.83.177.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.blih.net", Issuer "mail.blih.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3024D75749; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:34:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mail.blih.net (mail.blih.net [212.83.177.182]) by mail.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 0ddfdc19; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:34:22 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=bidouilliste.com; h= mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to :cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:message-id; s=mail; bh=k9QrJf 8sK6p3xN3cMCQzqUba/GE=; b=m4lNbuytKAjfMuhj5GkKLHPrpyHcsT2SziHhrV pI+nbk9PUy0Ap5rGtizes4IeTiZxOO8ltsJcimBPouvYh9Qbxe1wJeMvtCKmZ/Dn Zw/zU0z6BVU18aV7C7Dy6LLpmZu20aTnGPN0VcQCJa6/ogDxum40wOJu6jE089F6 dNi/8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=bidouilliste.com; h= mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to :cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:message-id; q=dns; s=mail; b= ssMW25s0KLM3K/BP4QSGnECVR+Qyja5bQ6YY4oZSiiJ/l5KEmRgEE/oZhkfbI3z/ u6c3QO6uBxuW8CARBraAyr+anyNBXtyYzypv0o7nk/BTcIuQ5N0BOEX3JhLuQQCc YZR/xH+eqRFUbaFNJ5JB+Dec/+y7A5A/QUNykKPkbFc= Received: from webmail.megadrive.org (www1.blih.net [212.83.177.180]) by mail.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id f217f2bc; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:34:22 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:34:22 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Warner Losh , Robert Watson , "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" , freebsd-mips@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor MIPS tree pruning Organization: Bidouilliste In-Reply-To: <201712310028.vBV0SWFO078434@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201712310028.vBV0SWFO078434@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Message-ID: X-Sender: manu@bidouilliste.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:34:27 -0000 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 >> 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 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