Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 03:22:10 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 14: Poll armv6 deprecated or removed Message-ID: <202212140222.2BE2MAoG074349@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:52:16 -0800." <F325FDFE-0254-459B-8530-220CF3D68481@yahoo.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:52:16 -0800 Mark Millard wrote: > Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote on > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:23:53 UTC : > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 10:48 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > > Sorry for the lag of a year, it's been a crazy time for me and this fell > > > through the cracks. > > > . . . > > > > > > > Oh, and #6: Demote armv6 (but not armv7) to tier 3. It's been kinda > > de-facto there for a while anyway, and this will make the signalling clear > > that the runway for armv6 is running out. > > > > > Yea. Some other adjustments to: > > https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/ > > would likely be appropriate, not just things > strongly tied to just armv6. Primarily, in: > > QUOTE > 32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7 is officially a Tier 2 architecture, > as the FreeBSD project does not provide official releases > or pre-built packages for this platform due to it primarily > targeting the embedded arena. > END QUOTE > > FreeBSD does provide pre-built packages for armv7, now much > better than when qemu based building was in use. (The aarch64 > based builders can execute armv7 and are used for armv7 > package building these days.) > > (armv6 builds uses qemu on amd64, which significantly limits > what gets built and provided: lots fails to be built. armv7 > use to have that status as well.) > > Also, the likes of: > > http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/ > > does have some armv6 and armv7 materials for 12.3/ , 12.4/ , > 13.0/ , and 13.1/ . The wording above might stop someone > from even looking for the material. (This sort of status > is not a recent change.) Sure looks to be official material. > > (No implication of a change from Tier 2 for armv7. But the > existing wording used to indicate example justifications is > --and has been-- misleading.) Extending wordings associated with each Pi dd image, would be very welcome, to specificaly list all hardware version of a Pi each image of v6, v7, aarch64, the image should boot. As a newbie to Raspberry Pi (but not FreeBSD) I have long been confused which image is for which version of Pi hardware. I previously had some kind of a 3B, & now have a "Pi 3 Model B+", but have not got beyond booting images, starting to customise /etc/ & then it crashes yet again, needing yet another dd, & repeat, Being certain one is using the right image would be nice. My notes: http://www.berklix.org/~jhs/pi/#images Cheers, -- Julian Stacey http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://StolenVotes.UK Arm Ukraine, Zap Putin. http://berklix.eu/ferries/#dover_solution
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