Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Stanislav Galabov <sgalabov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.


so svn rm sys/mips/rt305x is in order?

Warner


> >  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@
> .
> >>
> >> 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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