From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 25 21:24:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 261FF788; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org [204.13.248.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E3832A85; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-8-230-52.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.230.52] helo=damnhippie.dyndns.org) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl3dx-000Adv-Gr; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:24:33 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id rAPLOU6C005008; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:24:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 24.8.230.52 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18R5EOyipnzvmJ88rMtfUHF Subject: Re: freebsd-arm description? From: Ian Lepore To: George Neville-Neil In-Reply-To: <7DCF72F0-4072-46DD-A3F7-F33FC10055E9@neville-neil.com> References: <7DCF72F0-4072-46DD-A3F7-F33FC10055E9@neville-neil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-13" Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:24:30 -0700 Message-ID: <1385414670.1220.21.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by damnhippie.dyndns.org id rAPLOU6C005008 Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, postmaster@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:24:40 -0000 On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 16:07 -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote: > On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:05 , Tim Kientzle wrote: >=20 > > According to this page: > >=20 > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > >=20 > > =B4[This mailing list] is for individuals actively working on > > porting FreeBSD to the StrongArm Processor.=A1 > >=20 > > How do we change that to something a bit more accurate? > > (I=FFve recently heard from someone who passed over > > this mailing list because they didn=FFt think it applied to > > more modern ARM processors.) > >=20 > > Maybe: > >=20 > > =B4This is a technical mailing list for people working to > > develop and support FreeBSD on various ARM > > processors and SOCs.=A1 > >=20 >=20 > +postmaster@ >=20 > I think they can do this. >=20 > Best, > George >=20 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