Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:37:14 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Mori Hiroki <yamori813@yahoo.co.jp> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: One last item: CNS1102 support removal Message-ID: <CANCZdfrp%2B0HTsW2dWCsTi4zr3wQeo=6W%2B-3-fBLDovpJUCoJyQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <527924.35248.qm@web103919.mail.ssk.yahoo.co.jp> References: <CANCZdfqYRPKTRBjWLM5K=qd1OAMGqFiKeQDBcWgORA5kxh_uLQ@mail.gmail.com> <527924.35248.qm@web103919.mail.ssk.yahoo.co.jp>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Mori Hiroki <yamori813@yahoo.co.jp> wrote: > Hi. > > I make fdt eventtimer intrng to cns11xx. > > https://gist.github.com/yamori813/ae047a28a825aac255e436fd8ccaf785 > > > Still not work... > > Clang is very slow on cross compile. It's take 7 hour. > > My cns11xx target Planex MZK-W04G is 64MByte ram. > OK. I could only find a board with 16MB. 64MB is barely enough these days to do useful things with FreeBSD unless you're a super user. > It's bigger than rt1310 target. > There's no RALINK kernel config I could find, even though the rt1310 code is in the tree. What have I missed? > I almost abandon... > So are you abandoning both platforms? Or just CNS1102? Are you OK with removing one or both of these platforms? Warner Hiroki Mori > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> > > To: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> > > Cc: > > Date: 2018/7/18, Wed 22:58 > > Subject: One last item: CNS1102 support removal > > > >T here's one last item in arm land for 12 I'd like to remove: The Econa / > > Cavium CN1102 support. > > > > It's literally received no updates since it was committed in 2010, apart > > from others doing kernel sweeps. It's unmaintained. Strike one. > > > > Second, it will be the last armv4 port in the tree after I remove Atmel. > We > > haven't had FreeBSD running on armv4 Atmel since FreeBSD 8. Strike two. > > > > Third, the original machines were released in 2005 or 2006. There's only > > one known board, according to https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Cavium, and it > came > > with only 16MB. So it's old and doesn't have much RAM. While barely > > possible, in theory, to run FreeBSD/arm in 16MB, it's a huge PITA. Strike > > three. > > > > Forth, I can find no mention of it in the archives or bug database. > Strike > > four. > > > > I'm lead to the conclusion that this is no longer maintained, has no > users, > > the hardware it was in has insufficient resources to run FreeBSD well and > > these things are unlikely to change. Therefore, we should remove it. > > > > Comments? > > > > 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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