Re: https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/ : out of date 32-bit arm support material

The various BCM2837/BCM2711/BCM2712 based RPi models are aarch64.
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Subject: Re: https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/ : out of date 32-bit arm support material

The Status section does not mention FreeBSD/arm or FreeBSD/armv6 .
  (FreeBSD/armv6 is now Tier 2 for 13.* and derecated for 14.* and
  main. The HW section does mention FreeBSD/arm and FreeBSD/armv6.)
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Subject: https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/ : out of date 32-bit arm support material

For https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/ :

) The Status section does not mention FreeBSD/arm or FreeBSD/armv6 .
  (FreeBSD/armv6 is now Tier 3 for 14.* and derecated for 15.* and
  main. The HW section does mention FreeBSD/arm and FreeBSD/armv6.)

) The Status section does not mention FreeBSD/arm or FreeBSD/armv6 .
  (So: nothing indicating armv6 is supported on only 14.* and only as
  tier 3.)

) The Status section does indicate ARMv4 and ARMv5 as deprecated.
  (But there are later references to ARMv4/ARMv5 examples.)

) The FreeBSD/ARM Hardware Notes (up to the supported lists) does not
  mention armv7, just "FreeBSD/arm and FreeBSD/armv6".

) I did not try to validate the referenced: https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm

) I did not try to validate the referenced:
  https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/sys/arm/conf/

) The Cores Supported list references some cores that are not armv7 nor
  armv6. ARM9E, XScale, Feroceon,and ARM10E would likely be examples.
  Sheeva seems to be a Marketing name that spans more than armv6/armv7.

) The SoCs list references SoCs that involve no armv6/armv7 cores.
  (Atmel AT91RM92 and AT91SAM9 families and Intel XScale would be
  likely examples.)

) The only armv7 RPi BCM* is the BCM2836/BCM2709 in the RPi2B v1.1 .
  (Only the BCM2835 is mentioned.)

) The various BCM2835 based RPi models are armv6.

) The various BCM2837/BCM2711/BCM2712 based RPi models are aarch64.

) The Boards list references some Boards that involve no armv6/armv7
  cores. (Atmel AT91RM9200 would likely be an example.)


Note:
Overall, I only recognize a subset of those lists. But I'd not be
surprised if parts of those lists are no longer supported by 14.3+, by
15.0+, or by main --and more are not supported by 15.* and main.


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