Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On 2017-12-31 01:28, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> 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.

  Please go back and read very carefully what the person said about this.

  If you cannot read mail please read code, the compat data in 
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/mips/mediatek/mtk_soc.c?revision=317873&view=markup#l55 
tell me that sys/mips/mediatek support this SoC.

> 
>> 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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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>