Deorbiting armv4 and armv5 support

[Mori Hiroki]

Hi

What is broken ? I testing my port version of arm5t rt1310 over
one month. I have no problem.

Marvell make really newer armv5t device.

I hope we continue support armv5t.

Thanks

Hiroki Mori


----- Original Message -----
> From: Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
> To: "freebsd-arm at freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>
> Cc: 
> Date: 2017/6/9, Fri 05:22
> Subject: Deorbiting armv4 and armv5 support
> 
>G reetings,
> 
> 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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