Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:35:20 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale Message-ID: <20180713173520.GE40394@cicely7.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpcYn_tDwtPf7D=EtrmsY-GELbQ9zke%2BVbMAyV-9RTUWw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqMzSEsrw4n-ciBRWP8%2BB5uBBvF872bJZM38ucQDBWoUg@mail.gmail.com> <20180713171210.GD40394@cicely7.cicely.de> <CANCZdfpcYn_tDwtPf7D=EtrmsY-GELbQ9zke%2BVbMAyV-9RTUWw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:16:52AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:15:02PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > I'd like to retire Atmel and Xscale support prior to 12. The atmel stuff > > > has been dodgy for a long time and generally lacks the memory to run > > > FreeBSD well. We have no current users of it. > > > > [1]beaver.cicely.de> uname -a > > FreeBSD beaver.cicely.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 22 > > 07:52:33 CET 2009 ticso@beaver.cicely.de:/mnt2/ > > arm-2009-04-17/head/sys/arm/compile/BEAVER arm > > > > But yes, I think it is - unfortunately - a dead end with them and if I > > ever intend to go for a more recent FreeBSD version I will also change > > the hardware. > > > Atmel does have a A5-based family, but nobody has done the work to port. If > someone does, we can mine the repo for driver code that will be a good > starting point. I know - I have a devboard, but iit wasn't attractive to me as an application SoC. I do like and still use their ARM microcontroller series however. -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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