Re: FreeBSD 14: Poll armv6 deprecated or removed (just a reference to the new message on freebsd-arch)

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 1:28 PM bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 11:57:42AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 11:48 AM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > FYI: The old 2021-Oct-28 message related to armv6 removal
> > > sequencing/timing has a new follow up finally:
> > >
> > >
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2022-December/000313.html
> > >
> > > (Nothing about this changes the armv7 status.)
> > >
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > tl;dr: armv6 packages will stop, we'll stop doing -current armv6
> snapshots,
> > we'll move armv6 to
> > an 'extra' architecture in universe for stable/14. post stable/14 we'll
> > tear down support for armv6
> > in base and later in ports. Ports mention armv6 ~500 times, maybe 1/4 of
> > them also mention armv7,
> > and the vast majority of them mark things as broken in some way (though
> > there are exceptions).
>
> Apologies if I'm belaboring the obvious, but does that imply armv7
> support will go on as now for the near future?
>

Correct.  No changes to armv7 support are planned. It's better maintained
than armv6 and has a much wider reach. It's still relevant...

Warner

Thanks for reading,
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> bob prohaska
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