Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On 2017-12-31 01:46, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> 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.

  "router project folks" ?

  Who are you talking about exactly ?

>> 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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>> >
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