De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0

Emmanuel Vadot manu at bidouilliste.com
Wed Jun 20 08:33:24 UTC 2018


On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:24:26 -0600
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> 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.

 A13 is also single core, it's somewhat close to A10 and A20.
 I have a board but didn't booted it in a long time.

> Warner
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