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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?
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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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