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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:24:30 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, postmaster@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-arm description?
Message-ID:  <1385414670.1220.21.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <7DCF72F0-4072-46DD-A3F7-F33FC10055E9@neville-neil.com>
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On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 16:07 -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:05 , Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > According to this page:
> > 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm
> > 
> > ´[This mailing list] is for individuals actively working on
> > porting FreeBSD to the StrongArm Processor.ˇ
> > 
> > How do we change that to something a bit more accurate?
> > (I˙ve recently heard from someone who passed over
> > this mailing list because they didn˙t think it applied to
> > more modern ARM processors.)
> > 
> > Maybe:
> > 
> > ´This is a technical mailing list for people working to
> > develop and support FreeBSD on various ARM
> > processors and SOCs.ˇ
> > 
> 
> +postmaster@
> 
> I think they can do this.
> 
> Best,
> George
> 

It might be better to say "systems" or "computers" in place of SOCs.
Our focus historically has been on the chip/SoC, but increasingly ARM
processors are finding their way into off-the-shelf retail computers.

-- Ian




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