why is armv7 GENERICSD in 13.0-RELEASE?

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:22:27 +0100
tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> (not sure where else to post this, -arm seemed most appropiate at first
> glance)
> 
> As per subject. I went looking for armv7-rpi2b images. I could find
> aarch64-rpi images and arm-armv6-rpb images but for some reason the
> armv7-rpi2b image is called armv7-GENERICSD[1]. The only way of working
> out if it could be suitable for rpi2b was to download, unpack the image
> and mount the msdos partition with mdconfig to see that among the files
> there, there's bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb. There's lots of armv7 hardware out
> there not rpi2b. There is only one armv6 image and that is labelled as
> rpi-b. There is only one armv7 image and that's labelled as GENERICSD
> ?!? 
> 
> 1. why can't a naming convention be decided on and adhered to

 I want to add a GENERICSD image for aarch64 for a long time, it wasn't
possible before because some boards where using GPT while most of the
others where using MBR. Now that Allwinner can be used with GPT a
GENERICSD can be made (and only RPI will be left with MBR, even if I
think that some of the RPI4 can boot from GPT)

> 2. when naming convention changes, please make some sort of announcement
> on the main freebsd website.

 The commit was taggued with Relnotes, not sure why it wasn't added to
them.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e6b9cee76b14d687fb7ee6e37f381349b749401b

> [1] https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz
> 
> thanks,
> -- 
> J.


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