Minor MIPS tree pruning

[Brooks Davis]

The sibyte port is unlikely to work in practice.  I cribbed SMP stuff
from it for BERI and quite a bit of that was suspect.

-- Brooks

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 03:03:01PM +0300, Michael Zhilin 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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