Re: Poudriere friendly armv7 relases

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 02:38:34PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 2:28 PM Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > That said, I can take a look and see if we can package base.txz for
> > armv7, however I would like to do some archaeology work here to be sure
> > that the resultant output is not going to have unexpected behavior
> > because of the userland not matching 100% the target SoC.
> >
> 
> These days, everything FreeBSD builds is identical on supported harndware.
> We assume the boards can do UEFI after whatever weird thing they
> need to get that going, and all that crazy has been relegated to the
> uboot ports, and no longer intrudes into how we build stand (though some
> crazy people might build stand for such platforms, it's so niche (eg a
> couple
> of routers that don't run our binaries ever) at this point that we
> shouldn't worry
> about it for releases).
> 
> We've evolved to a point where the benefit for being able to build poudriere
> jails from release artifacts out-weights the couple of users being slightly
> inconvenienced on their legacy platforms (and it hasn't been clear those
> platforms will ever be updated to 14).
> 

Ok, let's discuss this further after 13.2 is done.  Note, we're about
a month from the start of the 14.0 cycle, but it sounds to me that once
a solution is in place, things should "just work" from that point.

Glen