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Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:32:30 +0000 Received: by kubenode528.mail-prod1.omega.ne1.yahoo.com (VZM Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 1c925c5342a5fbc652514950bb46c0fe; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 14.0 \(3654.120.0.1.13\)) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 14: Poll armv6 deprecated or removed In-Reply-To: <341A49EC-241C-43E7-8380-D2EE2F8C59F4@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:32:25 -0800 Cc: Free BSD , freebsd-arch Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <341A49EC-241C-43E7-8380-D2EE2F8C59F4@yahoo.com> To: tech-lists X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3654.120.0.1.13) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Hw91K48f7z4RVw X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=yahoo.com header.s=s2048 header.b=CH5lfUHP; dmarc=pass (policy=reject) header.from=yahoo.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of marklmi@yahoo.com designates 98.137.65.205 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=marklmi@yahoo.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.50 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[yahoo.com:s=s2048]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[98.137.65.205:from]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ptr:yahoo.com]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[yahoo.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[yahoo.com,reject]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[98.137.65.205:from]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36647, ipnet:98.137.64.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[yahoo.com:dkim] Reply-To: marklmi@yahoo.com From: Mark Millard via freebsd-arm X-Original-From: Mark Millard X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 2021-Nov-4, at 14:18, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2021-Nov-4, at 13:39, tech-lists wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 11:53:18AM -0700, Mark Millard via = freebsd-arch wrote: >>=20 >>> Without one or more developers willing to keep ARM11 based RPi* = FreeBSD >>> working as FreeBSD updates, the code will break. Other architectures >>> have been removed for such. Folks that do not want to work on such = code >>> do not want to have to work on it to keep FreeBSD building and = operating >>> for other architectures that have active developmers/maintainers. >>>=20 >>> If there were active FreeBSD developers for ARM11 RPi*'s, the = removal >>> would have been unlikely to be proposed at all, even if the use was >>> minor. FreeBSD is driven by the developer context directly, not the >>> usage context directly.=20 >>=20 >> OK. I can understand that. No developers want to work on it so no >> interest. That's straightforward, logical, bad for me but I can >> understand it and work around it. But that was not mentioned by the = OP. >>=20 >> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:44:20AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >>=20 >>>> Given that the number of available and useful armv6 boards has = fallen >>>> to almost zero, the time has come to look hard at armv6. >>=20 >> I'm objecting to this because "available and useful" is impossible to = measure. "Available" is going to be a very large number, because of >> the number of sales and popularity of these boards, and that they are >> durable. So stuff made years ago can logically be presumed to be = still >> in working order. Even if 0.1% of rpi1b users used freebsd on their >> boards, it'll still be a big number. FreeBSD does not record anywhere = the context in which it is used. And "useful" depends on who is using it = for what and is an opinion. >>=20 >>> NetBSD supports a lot of systems that FreeBSD does not. That fact = has >>> never justified having support for those systems in FreeBSD.=20 >>=20 >> I'm not saying that. What I'm asking is the reasoning. >>=20 >> "we don't want to support it anymore" is a reason >> "no devs are interested" is a reason >>=20 >> "the number of available and useful armv6 boards has fallen to almost >> zero" is objectively false and so therefore is not a reason. And = because >> it is not a reason then justifications following it will also be >> incorrect. >=20 > I'll note that: >=20 > https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.2.html >=20 > indicates: ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi 1 only) >=20 > so NetBSD does not have general armv6 support, just support for > the RPi*'s that are ARM11 based. (Another page mentions RPi0 and > RPi0w examples as "expected to work", although needing FDT files. > See: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/ and its > earmv6hf material.) >=20 > The lack of a variety of sources of armv6 or ARM11 that NetBSD > supports is likely a kind of property being referenced: even for > NetBSD no other ARM11's are targeted. >=20 > Basically, even for NetBSD, one has to be interested in supporting > (some) RPi*'s in order to be interested in supporting ARM11. There > is not much of any other ARM11 market for NetBSD (or FreeBSD). >=20 >>=20 >> I'm interested to know what NetBSD's reasons are in having tier-1 >> support for armv6, but I'll ask that on their lists. I'll also note that Fedora is at the proposal stage for removal of armv7 (yes: 7) in fc37. From: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireARMv7 is (in part): QUOTE Detailed Description The ARMv7 arm architecture was the second variant of the arm = architecture that Fedora has supported, the first was ARMv5, the third = is aarch64. The proposal is to retire ARMv7 as part of the Fedora 37 = release. This will allow ARMv7/armhfp to be supported until the Fedora = 36 end of life in around June 2023. Overall arm32 is generally waning with generally few new ARMv7 devices = added to Fedora in recent releases. To add to that a number of newer = Fedora features designed to improve speed and security of the Fedora = release are causing 32 bit architectures in general primarily due to the = process memory limit when linking large applications. The ARMv7/armhfp = is the last fully supported 32 bit architecture, we still currently = build i686 packages, but it's not shipped as artefacts. Benefit to Fedora The primary benefit is to maintainers of the ARM architecture, the = various toolchain teams and package maintainers in general. END QUOTE =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)