Re: Firm Timeline for MIPS removal from FreeBSD

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:49 PM Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2021-10-28 11:08:47 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:
> > Please find enclosed my proposed firm timeline for the removal of mips
> > from
> > FreeBSD, as previously discussed. There was no opposition to the plan
> > when
> > I posted before. The major
> > users of FreeBSD/mips in the past have mostly moved on and they
> > indicated
> > no objections
> > to the plan. And Adrian has committed his first arm port as well...
> >
> > So, I propose the following rather quick timeline:
> >
> > November 1: disconnect from tinderbox / universe. Add notices to
> > appropriate manuals and MFC them.
> > November 5: Post a review for its removal
> > November 15: commit the removal, assuming the review goes well.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Do you have a suggestion for when we can remove the mips packages from
> the pkg mirrors?  Since you mention MFCing this change, I assume we
> should stop building and distributing packages for 12 and 13 too.  How
> long should we keep the last package set around for (if at all?)
>

For 14.x we can stop today. I'm torn on 12.x and 13.x and would like to
know of people are using those packages.  Do we have numbers? That
will tell us how quickly we can transition to 0.


> I ask because I'd rather use the disk space on the mirrors for more
> better supported architectures.  While the footprint of mips packages is
> trivial in comparison to most others, it's not zero.  And syncing them
> across the mirrors takes time too.
>

What about armv6 packages? Do we have numbers there?

Warner