Re: RPi4 Status and sysutils/rpi-firmware

Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 11:52:23 +0200
Stefan Parvu <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> > I won't do anything anymore on the rpi-firmware port and we need a
> > maintainer for this platform.
> 
> FreeBSD core should review these. ARM architecture is and will be important for future.

 Review what ?

> 1. ARMv8 should be upgraded from Tier 2 to Tier 1, as a supported platform.  Companies will not develop on FreeBSD if we dont properly support it.
> https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ <https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/> 

 There is a lot of other arm64 platforms.

> 2. And you cant have a supported platform sfor further development without ownership and maintenance. So, for sure the platform requires a maintainer. 

 I'm only stopping from maintaining the rpi-firmware port, that doesn't
mean that I stop from doing arm/arm64 dev and that doesn't stop other
people doing arm/arm64 dev.

> Stefan
> 


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