Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:16:52AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Atmel does have a A5-based family, but nobody has done the work to port. If
> someone does, we can mine the repo for driver code that will be a good
> starting point.

I know - I have a devboard, but iit wasn't attractive to me as an
application SoC.
I do like and still use their ARM microcontroller series however.

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