Re: Future of armv7

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 11:44:42AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:

>Community surveys, show of hands at conferences, mailing list traffic and
>armv7 package downloads (this is second hand).

Hmm. OK. But you'd never have counted my usage for example, and I
use 3x rpi2b's.

I've never seen a survey about this and I've never attended a 
conference. Much of the time if there's an issue I'd 
search first before posting on freebsd-arm@.
I think it's reasonable to assume I'm not alone in this.

And I'd prefer to compile from ports, not use packages because 
packages have been very stale, and they've been that way for 
a long time. I think also it's reasonable to assume I'm not
alone here.

I mean ultimately the decision to stop supporting
armv7 can be for any reason, or no reason at all.

But the counting of "usage" as justification is 
defective IMO because "usage" cannot be measured 
with any accuracy at all as far as I can tell with the methods
you have described.
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