Build for Intel iXP420 board?

[Ian Lepore]

On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 16:18 +0900, Mori Hiroki wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I tried old arm on FreeBSD. I seem FreeBSD old arm
> implimentation is so bad. It's very bad performance.
> 
> 
> I suggest you use other OS.
> 
> Hiroki Mori
> 

Good advice.  For many people it didn't work at all (panics and data
corruption).  For others it worked, but slowly.  Also, many ports could
not be built for it.  And we had no resources to debug and maintain it,
so support for it got removed.

-- Ian

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net>
> > To: Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
> > Cc: "freebsd-arm at freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>
> > Date: 2020/12/11, Fri 07:48
> > Subject: Re: Build for Intel iXP420 board?
> > 
> > FreeBSD 9 or 10! These are just old enough that I can't find
> > archives. Were
> > Avila images ever published in binary form, or would I have to set
> > up a
> > development machine, check out old sources, and cross-build?
> > 
> > --Brett Glass
> > 
> > 
> > At 02:25 PM 12/10/2020, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > > FreeBSD 9 or 10 or maybe 11 is your best bet. 'gateworks' I
> > > think 
> > > is what you want to search for in the sources, not avila, but 
> > > maybe you can use both to find them. The armv5 port was removed 
> > > from FreeBSD because it had bit rotted too much. I used to run 
> > > FreeBSD 8 on these boards as a wireless access point shortly
> > > after 
> > > Sam committed the code to the tree. I've had good luck with 
> > > FreeBSD stable/10 on other arm gear, but there's been reports of 
> > > issues on stable/10 with unaligned I/O causing problems for some 
> > > cache topologies.
> > > 
> > > WarnerÂ
> > 
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