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Subject: Re: freebsd-arm description?
From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:24 , Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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:
>>=20
>>> According to this page:
>>>=20
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm
>>>=20
>>> =93[This mailing list] is for individuals actively working on
>>> porting FreeBSD to the StrongArm Processor.=94
>>>=20
>>> How do we change that to something a bit more accurate?
>>> (I=B4ve recently heard from someone who passed over
>>> this mailing list because they didn=B4t think it applied to
>>> more modern ARM processors.)
>>>=20
>>> Maybe:
>>>=20
>>> =93This is a technical mailing list for people working to
>>> develop and support FreeBSD on various ARM
>>> processors and SOCs.=94
>>>=20
>>=20
>> +postmaster@
>>=20
>> I think they can do this.
>>=20
>> Best,
>> George
>>=20
>=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.

I think if we leave off =93and SOCs=94 we=92ll run the correct gamut.

Best
George