Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 21:28:45 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deorbiting armv4 and armv5 support Message-ID: <op.y1ood7ookndu52@53556c9c.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqj5nKvrbNg6woNkCLXyuyozS=z%2B6KFoxkXN3HMv44%2BAw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqj5nKvrbNg6woNkCLXyuyozS=z%2B6KFoxkXN3HMv44%2BAw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 08 Jun 2017 22:22:51 +0200, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > The pmap in armv4/5 has been broken for years at this point. It basically > works, but has issues with unaligned buffers. Since these have remained > unfixed for a long time, and most of the main ARM developers have given > up > trying to fix it, I think it would be best to retire the support rather > than waste people's time that seem to be working only to discover after a > lot of effort that it's busted. > > Since the consensus at the FreeBSD developer's summit appeared to be > 'let's > let it go'. It would remove the TARGET_ARCH arm and armeb. armv6 would > remain unaffected (though see a parallel thread). > > Warner What branches are you talking about? Regards, Ronald.
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