De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:51 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > So now that Kyle has volunteered to look after A20, I'd like to
> > continue this thread:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:32:48PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > >  I want to remove A31 support for FreeBSD 12:
> > >  - My A31 board (BananapiM1) just died today after a long time of being
> > > my arm32 reference board.
> >
> > Is someone willing to pick up A31, or should we still phase it out?
> >
> > >  - I don't want the code to stay like the old 32 bits rockchip or
> > > amlogic code that can't even boot nowadays.
> >
> > I think this would be a good time to drop support for things that have
> > gotten into this state.  Do you have a complete list?  Does anyone else
> > have any objections?
> >
> > fwiw, I've updated the wiki to note that A20 will continue to be
> > supported, and A10 probably will be.
>
> Kyle Evans who stepped up to do the A20 has agreed to take on
> the A10 if I get him an appropriate board.  We (Kyle and I) have
> come to the decision that this should be a CubieBoard 1.  I
> am presently hunting the back dark corners for one, they are
> avaliable on ebay here and there for not too much money still
> as well.
>

I'm almost positive I have an A10 based board. It's either the CubieBoard
or the MarsBoard. Both of which are just very lightly re-warmed reference
designs.

Then again, they are only $50 on ebay.

The biggest issue I see is that it's the only Allwinner board to be single
core.

Warner