De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:24 PM, 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.
> >
> 
> Yes. I have one running 11.0 release right now... I should upgrade that to
> 11.2 for testing

That would be greatly appreciated!

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org