One last item: CNS1102 support removal

[Mori Hiroki]

Hi

sys/arm/ralink is work fine. Please do not remove this.

Why do you want remove armv5t ? armv5t is still alive. 

Thanks

Hiroki Mori


----- Original Message -----
>From: Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
>To: Mori Hiroki <yamori813 at yahoo.co.jp> 
>Cc: "freebsd-arm at freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>
>Date: 2018/7/19, Thu 02:37
>Subject: Re: One last item: CNS1102 support removal
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>On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Mori Hiroki <yamori813 at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
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>Hi.
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>>I make fdt eventtimer intrng to cns11xx.
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>>https://gist.github.com/ yamori813/ ae047a28a825aac255e436fd8ccaf7 85
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>>Still not work...
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>>Clang is very slow on cross compile. It's take 7 hour.
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>>My cns11xx target Planex MZK-W04G is 64MByte ram.
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>OK. I could only find a board with 16MB. 64MB is barely enough these days to do useful things with FreeBSD unless you're a super user.
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>It's bigger than rt1310 target.
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>There's no RALINK kernel config I could find, even though the rt1310 code is in the tree. What have I missed?
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>I almost abandon...
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>So are you abandoning both platforms? Or just CNS1102?
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>Are you OK with removing one or both of these platforms?
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>Warner
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>Hiroki Mori
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
>>> To: "freebsd-arm at freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>
>>> Cc: 
>>> Date: 2018/7/18, Wed 22:58
>>> Subject: One last item: CNS1102 support removal
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>>>T here's one last item in arm land for 12 I'd like to remove: The Econa /
>>> Cavium CN1102 support.
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>>> It's literally received no updates since it was committed in 2010, apart
>>> from others doing kernel sweeps. It's unmaintained. Strike one.
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>>> Second, it will be the last armv4 port in the tree after I remove Atmel. We
>>> haven't had FreeBSD running on armv4 Atmel since FreeBSD 8. Strike two.
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>>> Third, the original machines were released in 2005 or 2006. There's only
>>> one known board, according to https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ Cavium, and it came
>>> with only 16MB. So it's old and doesn't have much RAM. While barely
>>> possible, in theory, to run FreeBSD/arm in 16MB, it's a huge PITA. Strike
>>> three.
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>>> Forth, I can find no mention of it in the archives or bug database. Strike
>>> four.
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>>> I'm lead to the conclusion that this is no longer maintained, has no users,
>>> the hardware it was in has insufficient resources to run FreeBSD well and
>>> these things are unlikely to change. Therefore, we should remove it.
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>>> Comments?
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>>> Warner
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