From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mon Oct 23 19:24:45 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@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 F2FB6E530B8 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from c.mail.sonic.net (c.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCECC81171 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from zeppelin.tachypleus.net (75-101-50-44.static.sonic.net [75.101.50.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by c.mail.sonic.net (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id v9NJOafo007004 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:24:36 -0700 Subject: Re: Any AVILA / CAMBRIA users? To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: From: Nathan Whitehorn Message-ID: <027e0c63-9017-cb62-a6ba-1764a42a630c@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:24:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVY3EpWV+t/d7JuGLM7hemT9r3jf/B8SBz1NNyuBu3uEJYbPmxmbb+/3lerQ2trpjqI/67K5K3JSqjv+CjinOK9YLAw15erflDo= X-Sonic-ID: C;CO5Ezie45xGDgYKfRUfeDw== M;arOzzie45xGDgYKfRUfeDw== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:24:46 -0000 I do, and run a reasonably recent 12-CURRENT on it. This is my home wifi router. I think the bootloader stuff has never worked (I've never used it, anyway), so have no objections to deleting it. -Nathan On 10/23/17 12:22, Warner Losh wrote: > Is anybody still using the IXP425 systems on FreeBSD? Do you expect to run > FreeBSD 12 on them? > > I'm asking because it seems support for them is dangerously decayed and > likely wouldn't work. These are old systems, EOLd back in 2009. There's > issues with the boot loader, and it's unclear if a kernel for these boards > would still work (the boards have only 64MB of RAM, which puts them at the > extreme low end of what can run FreeBSD without expert tuning of the > kernel). A couple of years ago, I know we had one user, but I'm not sure > that he's still using the board. The niche market for these boards was > wifi, but the standard have evolved since then and there's no relevant > hardware available for an upgrade. > > 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" >