Re: freebsd-update and arm64.aarch64 (rpi4)

tech-lists <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:01:09 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:31:10PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:

>Looks documented to me. But one has to find and follow
>the definitions/reference-material.
>
>There are places that reference having "binary security
>and errata updates to FreeBSD" or such wording that do
>not mention the tool(s) used for such. But . . .

[snip]

>(Admittedly, https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/installation/
>makes no mention of arm64/aarch64 but mentions only i386 and
>amd64. But there is material elsewhere that indicates arm64/aarch64
>has such as of 13.0-RELEASE+,  given its Tier 1 status for
>13.0-RELEASE+, see later below.)

This illustrates the point I'm trying to make. It can be inferred
from the overall tier1 status, but given the sheer number of boards
on this arch it would be best I think if, rather than an inference,
the supported boards (for freebsd-update) were listed explicitly,
in order to provide clarity. This should be obvious and easy to find.

[snip]

>One thing that I've not seen explicit material for, that was
>referenced in Ed's announcement, is:
>
>QUOTE
>We will also be suggesting one or more low-cost reference
>platforms for FreeBSD/arm64.
>END QUOTE
>
>I've no clue where to find such suggestions.

neither do I!
-- 
J.

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