Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:21:03 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is armv7 GENERICSD in 13.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20210415222103.a21025d9fa4607a6e4ff0cf0@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <YHh2UyIqTMrqyhow@ceres.zyxst.net> References: <YHh2UyIqTMrqyhow@ceres.zyxst.net>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:22:27 +0100 tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote: > (not sure where else to post this, -arm seemed most appropiate at first > glance) > > As per subject. I went looking for armv7-rpi2b images. I could find > aarch64-rpi images and arm-armv6-rpb images but for some reason the > armv7-rpi2b image is called armv7-GENERICSD[1]. The only way of working > out if it could be suitable for rpi2b was to download, unpack the image > and mount the msdos partition with mdconfig to see that among the files > there, there's bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb. There's lots of armv7 hardware out > there not rpi2b. There is only one armv6 image and that is labelled as > rpi-b. There is only one armv7 image and that's labelled as GENERICSD > ?!? > > 1. why can't a naming convention be decided on and adhered to I want to add a GENERICSD image for aarch64 for a long time, it wasn't possible before because some boards where using GPT while most of the others where using MBR. Now that Allwinner can be used with GPT a GENERICSD can be made (and only RPI will be left with MBR, even if I think that some of the RPI4 can boot from GPT) > 2. when naming convention changes, please make some sort of announcement > on the main freebsd website. The commit was taggued with Relnotes, not sure why it wasn't added to them. https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e6b9cee76b14d687fb7ee6e37f381349b749401b > [1] https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz > > thanks, > -- > J. -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@FreeBSD.org>
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