Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Warner Losh]

Can you give me pointers to these boards for adm5120 and IDT? When last I
tried to get them 5 years ago they were hard to come by and generally came
with no more than 32M or 64M of memory.

mips/rt305x has been subsumed by mips/mediatek, so will be deleted w/o loss
of functionality.

I'm curious what benefit sibyte has apart from broadcom? It seems to
support a super old broadcom chip that's way obsolete that has a bunch of
errata that need workarounds that aren't present in newer chips. What am I
missing?

Warner

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:03 AM, Michael Zhilin <mizhka at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Warner,
>
> If I can give my twopence worth, I think that adm5120 & idt are to be kept
> for a while, there are few vintage boards (for instance, Mikrotik from
> Latvia) with good configuration (plenty of flash and RAM), sibyte is to be
> part of broadcom and also kept for a while.
> rt305x is still very popular and cheap (for instance, "3g router" with
> RT5350 from AliExpress, but I have one, not yet tested).
>
> And I don't know what is alchemy. :)
>
> Thank you!
> P.S. Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:10 AM, 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)
>> 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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