Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 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.

Please go back and read very carefully what the person said about
this.  It was PLANNED to subsume rt305x into mediatek, but it has
NOT been done yet.  At least that is how I read the persons
comments.


> 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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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org