Deorbiting armv4 and armv5 support

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jun 8 20:22:54 UTC 2017


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


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