Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Stanislav Galabov]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:10:11 -0700
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to propose that we eliminate support for the following before the
>> FreeBSD 12 branch.
>>
>> adm5120 (most boards don't have enough memory, very old)
>> alchemy (the au1xxxx port never really was finished, and boards lack
>> memory, very old)
>> idt (only a few boards worked, most are long obsolete)
>> rt305x (raylink kit is now out dated, at least I think so)
>
>  Olimex still sell rt5350 board (those two are quite the same SoC) :
>  https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/RT5350F/RT5350F-OLinuXino/open-source-hardware
>
>  I did port FreeBSD on it almost three years ago
> (https://www.bidouilliste.com/blog/2015/07/22/FreeBSD-on-Olimex-RT5350F-OLinuXino/
> ) but I don't remember if any of my code when into the tree but we have
> support from it based on the work from sgalabov@
>
Yes, the Ralink chips, as well as the newer Mediatek
(post-acquisition) ones, are supported by the code in
sys/mips/mediatek.
The original idea was to have both sys/mips/mediatek and
sys/mips/rt305x for historical reasons and later on remove the rt305x
one if there are no objections.
Seeing as the mediatek support actually supports a lot more SoCs and
also supports FDT, I think this is still the way to go.

>  It doesn't mean I've objecting to the removal, I have no interest in
> mips and I don't even know the actual support on it.
>
>> sibyte (long obsolete, hard to get hardware)
>>
>> I thought I'd post a heads up here before I proposed this list to arch at .
>>
>> We have enough exemplars these days we don't need to keep these older ports
>> around as examples anymore, and I have my doubts if we even work on these
>> boards anymore.
>>
>> If I'm wrong about these being old, or that FreeBSD is no longer running on
>> them, please let me know. Thanks!
>>
>> Warner
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