Retiring two more: Atmel and Xscale

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jul 12 21:54:11 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > I'd like to retire Atmel and Xscale support prior to 12. The atmel stuff
> > has been dodgy for a long time and generally lacks the memory to run
> > FreeBSD well. We have no current users of it.
> >
> > The Xscale stuff is old enough to not be relevant. There's no known
> users.
> > Part of it is already set to go with the big endian stuff, but is there a
> > reason to keep the rest?
>
> I thought a depreciation policy was in process to help deal with
> all of these.
>

It will, but these two are no-brainers. The last known users of both of
these sub-ports are done with them (Atmel since 8.2, Xscale maybe longer).
The one Atmel product I'm aware of will never upgrade past 8.2. The Xscale
stuff has not been used even longer in any serious way (since the 7
timeframe, though there were one or two possible single users).

If there's no objections, I'll just remove. If there are objections, it
will be easy enough to do under that umbrella.

Warner


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