Re: Poudriere friendly armv7 relases

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 2:23 PM Mitchell Horne <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 3/20/23 17:06, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Since it looks like we're going to retain at least armv7 for FreeBSD 14
> > (armv6 has been nominated for deprecation, but if it isn't deprecated,
> > all this applies to it).
> >
> > I'd like to start making at least the base.tgz, etc available for armv7.
> > This would allow us to create armv7 poduriere jails without building
> > from source.
> >
> > Is there some reason we're not doing this today? I know ISOs don't make
> > a lot of sense in the arm ecosystem, but having these artifacts would
> > enable poudriere binary install support.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
>
> I more-or-less proposed this in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29923. See
> the discussion that follows. Basically this is in re@'s hands and you
> should make some noise in their direction.
>

Ah, that's why I thought it was tied to .iso creation :). Maybe the right
thing is to just do it for 14 and let the fallout happen and be worked
through :)

Warner