Re: FreeBSD 14: Poll armv6 deprecated or removed

A Raspberry Pi 1B+.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

Am Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:47:57AM -0600 schrieb Warner Losh:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 9:46 AM Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just bought an armv6 board a few days ago to improve package support
> > for this platform.
> 
> 
> Which armv6 board?
> 
> Warner
> 
> 
> > But alas apart from maintaining an assembly code base
> > with specific support for armv6 FreeBSD [1], that's really the only thing
> > I'm doing with it.
> >
> > So not really important for me either way, but if you ask I'm in favour of
> > keeping armv6 support.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Robert Clausecker
> >
> > [1]: https://mecrisp.sourceforge.net
> >
> > Am Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:37:03AM -0600 schrieb Warner Losh:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > Given that the number of available and useful armv6 boards has fallen to
> > > almost zero, the time has come to look hard at armv6.
> > >
> > > There's a number of options.
> > >
> > > 1. Keep it as is. This will only happen if there's a lot more users than
> > we
> > > think (and we think there's nearly zero users of FreeBSD 13 and newer
> > that
> > > would want to run FreeBSD 14).
> > >
> > > 2. Stop building packages. Given it's small to non-existent user base, it
> > > makes no sense to provide a package building service for it.
> > > 2a. We should likely do this anyway for all stable branches since it's a
> > > net negative in terms of cost/benefit analysis: lots of effort to
> > produce,
> > > very little use.
> > >
> > > 3. Disconnect it from universe: This will mean it will rot, though. It's
> > a
> > > necessary step in removal.
> > >
> > > 4. Remove support for armv6 in base entirely. This will orphan any RPiB
> > and
> > > RPi0 users out there. However, the RPiB hasn't been sold in a few years,
> > > and the RPI0's connectivity is severely lacking given no SDIO support.
> > >
> > > So, which of these steps do we do before FreeBSD 14 and which before
> > > FreeBSD 15?
> > >
> > > My vote would be to do 1-4 for 14 including 2a.
> > >
> > > Warner
> >
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