Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:51:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 Message-ID: <201806200451.w5K4peq1072812@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20180620035146.GC29485@lonesome.com>
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> So now that Kyle has volunteered to look after A20, I'd like to > continue this thread: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:32:48PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > > I want to remove A31 support for FreeBSD 12: > > - My A31 board (BananapiM1) just died today after a long time of being > > my arm32 reference board. > > Is someone willing to pick up A31, or should we still phase it out? > > > - I don't want the code to stay like the old 32 bits rockchip or > > amlogic code that can't even boot nowadays. > > I think this would be a good time to drop support for things that have > gotten into this state. Do you have a complete list? Does anyone else > have any objections? > > fwiw, I've updated the wiki to note that A20 will continue to be > supported, and A10 probably will be. Kyle Evans who stepped up to do the A20 has agreed to take on the A10 if I get him an appropriate board. We (Kyle and I) have come to the decision that this should be a CubieBoard 1. I am presently hunting the back dark corners for one, they are avaliable on ebay here and there for not too much money still as well. > But there are still a number of boards listed there as "supported" that > probably have not seen updates for years (specificially, some of the > development boards). I'd rather let people know what we recommend for > new arm users. I expect RPi, Pine64, OrangePi, and BeagleBone to be > in that list ... are the CubieBoard and WandBoard still popular? > > What do people think? > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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