Armeb removal before 12

[Mori Hiroki]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
>From: Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
>To: Mori Hiroki <yamori813 at yahoo.co.jp> 
>Cc: "freebsd-arm at freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>; "freebsd-arch at freebsd.org" <arch at freebsd.org>
>Date: 2018/6/14, Thu 07:57
>Subject: Re: Armeb removal before 12
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>On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Mori Hiroki <yamori813 at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
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>Hi.
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
>>> To: "freebsd-arm at freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>; "freebsd-arch at freebsd.org" <arch at freebsd.org>
>>> Cc: 
>>> Date: 2018/6/14, Thu 01:55
>>> Subject: Armeb removal before 12
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>>> I'd like to remove armeb before 12.0.
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>>> It's poorly supported today.
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>>> Nobody has tested the concurrency kit changes on it. And ck is now
>>> mandatory. We don't even know if it works or not.
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>>> Last time we asked, it took quite a while to find users.
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>>> It maxes out at 256MB of RAM. This is barely large enough for FreeBSD to
>>> run in.
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>>sys/arm/ralink target is only 16M of RAM. I use bridge on this target
>>work fine.
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>Even with current? It seems to have grown a lot. Even FreeBSD 11 on my atmel boards, the 32MB ones can't really do much of anything (though a custom /etc/rc.d might be usable). The 64MB ones I have troubles logging into without disabling a ton of stuff. And FreeBSD-current is even larger.
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>Are you using a custom rc.d in this setup?


Of course CURRENT.

https://gist.github.com/yamori813/88224f1c96c9c592fb611b12a15e4ab5


I use custom rc.d by ZRouter build system.

Thanks

Hiroki Mori

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>I have FWIXP422BB target(Planex BRC-14VG) with 32M of RAM. I never build
>>FreeBSD for this target.
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>>I want build for FWIXP422BB but clang cross build is very slow. It take
>>7 hour on my machine.
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>I'm sorry to hear that. Even on my fast machines, it takes long time.
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>Warner
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>>> The hardware was last made almost a decade ago.
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>>> It uses non-standard non-mainstream boot loaders (boot technology has moved
>>> on from redboot).
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>>> The cost of doing API sweeps, make universe runs, etc exceeds the benefit
>>> to the project.
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>>> So, given all these factors, it sounds like a good candidate for retirement.
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>>> Therefore, I'd like to remove it on July 15th.
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>>> Comments? (please keep  them on topic to this specific thing: there's other
>>> things that may also be past their freshness date, we'll discuss those in a
>>> separate thread).
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>>> Warner
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