Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:26:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>, postmaster@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd-arm description? Message-ID: <47088196-D4BE-4490-A4DA-C4EF6D4A27F3@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <41B13191-0D41-4EA8-BBCE-3E6A440EF90A@neville-neil.com> References: <D8D11C17-21CE-4F90-BC6E-7991BC6B21F2@freebsd.org> <7DCF72F0-4072-46DD-A3F7-F33FC10055E9@neville-neil.com> <1385414670.1220.21.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <41B13191-0D41-4EA8-BBCE-3E6A440EF90A@neville-neil.com>
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On Nov 25, 2013, at 2:28 PM, George Neville-Neil wrote: >=20 > On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:24 , Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 >> 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. >=20 > I think if we leave off =93and SOCs=94 we=92ll run the correct gamut. You might want to toss 'modern' in front of the processors, since we = mostly talk about that here, with the odd question about legacy things = that have gotten broken. But I'm easy. Warner=
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