freebsd-arm description?

[Warner Losh]

On Nov 25, 2013, at 2:28 PM, George Neville-Neil wrote:

> 
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:24 , Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 16:07 -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:05 , Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> According to this page:
>>>> 
>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm
>>>> 
>>>> “[This mailing list] is for individuals actively working on
>>>> porting FreeBSD to the StrongArm Processor.”
>>>> 
>>>> How do we change that to something a bit more accurate?
>>>> (I´ve recently heard from someone who passed over
>>>> this mailing list because they didn´t think it applied to
>>>> more modern ARM processors.)
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe:
>>>> 
>>>> “This is a technical mailing list for people working to
>>>> develop and support FreeBSD on various ARM
>>>> processors and SOCs.”
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> +postmaster@
>>> 
>>> I think they can do this.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> George
>>> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> I think if we leave off “and SOCs” we’ll 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