Re: git: d428dcc996b5 - stable/13 - stand/mips64: Make beri loader compile

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:46 AM Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 03:23:05PM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> > The branch stable/13 has been updated by imp:
> >
> > URL:
> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=d428dcc996b5ec26166bbd90ef0fc6996838c337
> >
> > commit d428dcc996b5ec26166bbd90ef0fc6996838c337
> > Author:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2023-01-25 15:14:45 +0000
> > Commit:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2023-01-25 15:21:04 +0000
> >
> >     stand/mips64: Make beri loader compile
>
> If removing BERI support made future MFCs easier it would be fine to do
> that.  There are zero consumers.  (BERI didn't take off and RISC-V is
> generally the research platform of choice for hardware people.  We've
> moved to a combination of RISC-V and Morello for CHERI work.)
>

I think I will remove the BERI support then, if there's no users. MIPS is a
tier-2 platform
so we can do things like this in a stable branch, especially given BERI's
special nature.
I'm unsure that my changes even work, so it's likely best we just do that.
I don't know
for sure it will make future MFCs easier, but there's a lot of copied code
in it that I've
centralized and fixed bugs in, and likely will continue to do so and
definitely won't think
to fix BERI when I MFC.

Warner