Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> 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.


That's not how I read it. I read it as "this is what we planned, and we've
arrived." However, out of an abundance of caution, I sent an email asking
for confirmation. Code inspection certainly suggests that my interpretation
is correct.

Warner


>
> > 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
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