Re: FreeBSD 14: Poll armv6 deprecated or removed (just a reference to the new message on freebsd-arch)

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 11:57:42AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 11:48 AM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > FYI: The old 2021-Oct-28 message related to armv6 removal
> > sequencing/timing has a new follow up finally:
> >
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2022-December/000313.html
> >
> > (Nothing about this changes the armv7 status.)
> >
> 
> Nope.
> 
> tl;dr: armv6 packages will stop, we'll stop doing -current armv6 snapshots,
> we'll move armv6 to
> an 'extra' architecture in universe for stable/14. post stable/14 we'll
> tear down support for armv6
> in base and later in ports. Ports mention armv6 ~500 times, maybe 1/4 of
> them also mention armv7,
> and the vast majority of them mark things as broken in some way (though
> there are exceptions).

Apologies if I'm belaboring the obvious, but does that imply armv7
support will go on as now for the near future?

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska