Build for Intel iXP420 board?

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 8:34 AM Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yea, FreeBSD 8 or 9 likely was the best for those devices and those
releases are a decade old... the just before we removed it tree totally
sucked. I couldn't even run DNSMASQ on my old atmel boards that were quite
happy with FreeBSD 8. The panda board I migrated to worked great... though
it died and I moved to some generic allwinner board...

Warner

-- 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.
> > > >
> > > > WarnerĀ
> > >
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