Re: Poudriere friendly armv7 relases

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 02:25:52PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 2:23 PM Mitchell Horne <mhorne@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 3/20/23 17:06, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > Since it looks like we're going to retain at least armv7 for FreeBSD 14
> > > (armv6 has been nominated for deprecation, but if it isn't deprecated,
> > > all this applies to it).
> > >
> > > I'd like to start making at least the base.tgz, etc available for armv7.
> > > This would allow us to create armv7 poduriere jails without building
> > > from source.
> > >
> > > Is there some reason we're not doing this today? I know ISOs don't make
> > > a lot of sense in the arm ecosystem, but having these artifacts would
> > > enable poudriere binary install support.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> >
> > I more-or-less proposed this in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29923. See
> > the discussion that follows. Basically this is in re@'s hands and you
> > should make some noise in their direction.
> >
> 
> Ah, that's why I thought it was tied to .iso creation :). Maybe the right
> thing is to just do it for 14 and let the fallout happen and be worked
> through :)
> 

It is only tied into ISO creation in the sense of "that is where the
bootonly.iso fetches the sets to extract" sense.  In this case, I am not
sure if the chicken or the egg came first.

Glen