Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 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.

Thanks.  Also you might want to ping the router projects folks,
as I believe many of the mips based routers use this SOC and
they may have info on which of the implementations work better,
and/or if the mediatek branch is up to speed and the rt305x
can just be axed.  I know this project is out there someplace,
but can not find a link for it right now.    And I have seen
some activity someplace from them in the last 3 or 4 months.

> 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                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org