Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely7.cicely.de
Fri Jul 13 17:12:30 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:15:02PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> I'd like to retire Atmel and Xscale support prior to 12. The atmel stuff
> has been dodgy for a long time and generally lacks the memory to run
> FreeBSD well. We have no current users of it.

[1]beaver.cicely.de> uname -a
FreeBSD beaver.cicely.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 22 07:52:33 CET 2009     ticso at beaver.cicely.de:/mnt2/arm-2009-04-17/head/sys/arm/compile/BEAVER  arm

But yes, I think it is - unfortunately - a dead end with them and if I
ever intend to go for a more recent FreeBSD version I will also change
the hardware.

> The Xscale stuff is old enough to not be relevant. There's no known users.
> Part of it is already set to go with the big endian stuff, but is there a
> reason to keep the rest?

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