Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Yea. It's kinda cool, but not cool enough to be useful.


> I do like and still use their ARM microcontroller series however.


Cool.