Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:25:43 +0900 (JST) From: Mori Hiroki <yamori813@yahoo.co.jp> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Armeb removal before 12 Message-ID: <540973.43848.qm@web101701.mail.ssk.yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoVYJbJEM-PhKL3Y_edp=X6Smb1uYHrEiYSm%2BZXsTmzdw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfoVYJbJEM-PhKL3Y_edp=X6Smb1uYHrEiYSm%2BZXsTmzdw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> > To: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>; "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> > Cc: > Date: 2018/6/14, Thu 01:55 > Subject: Armeb removal before 12 > > I'd like to remove armeb before 12.0. > > It's poorly supported today. > > Nobody has tested the concurrency kit changes on it. And ck is now > mandatory. We don't even know if it works or not. > > Last time we asked, it took quite a while to find users. > > It maxes out at 256MB of RAM. This is barely large enough for FreeBSD to > run in. sys/arm/ralink target is only 16M of RAM. I use bridge on this target work fine. I have FWIXP422BB target(Planex BRC-14VG) with 32M of RAM. I never build FreeBSD for this target. I want build for FWIXP422BB but clang cross build is very slow. It take 7 hour on my machine. > > The hardware was last made almost a decade ago. > > It uses non-standard non-mainstream boot loaders (boot technology has moved > on from redboot). > > The cost of doing API sweeps, make universe runs, etc exceeds the benefit > to the project. > > So, given all these factors, it sounds like a good candidate for retirement. > > Therefore, I'd like to remove it on July 15th. > > Comments? (please keep them on topic to this specific thing: there's other > things that may also be past their freshness date, we'll discuss those in a > separate thread). > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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