Re: git: 6fe66094cd - main - HW Relnotes: Remove aic.i386 from template

On 8/22/25 12:53, Alexander Ziaee wrote:
> On 2025-08-22 10:03 -04:00 EDT, "John Baldwin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/21/25 16:43, Alexander Ziaee wrote:
>>> The branch main has been updated by ziaee:
>>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=6fe66094cd90c50d1b7ce7a994d86ff1f95ac0ba
>>>> commit 6fe66094cd90c50d1b7ce7a994d86ff1f95ac0ba
>>> Author:     Alexander Ziaee <[email protected]>
>>> AuthorDate: 2025-08-21 20:35:29 +0000
>>> Commit:     Alexander Ziaee <[email protected]>
>>> CommitDate: 2025-08-21 20:35:29 +0000
>>>>       HW Relnotes: Remove aic.i386 from template
>>>       >      Ref:    src:c24bd33d41b6d (Remove aic(4) driver)
>>
>> Hmm, for 15.0, we aren't shipping kernels for i386 or 32-bit powerpc, so
>> that means drivers for those platforms aren't relevant either and should be
>> removed.  If a driver is for both amd64 and i386, we probably want to only list
>> amd64 in the release notes.
>>
>> For any powerpc drivers, you might want to ensure it is not used for powerpc64
>> before removing an entry in the harware notes.  powerpc64 is kind of special
>> compared to i386 vs amd64 in that both powerpc and powerpc64* share the same
>> sys/powerpc directory and sys/conf/files.powerpc, etc.
>>
>> i386 should be a straightforward cleanup at least (I hope).
> 
> Thanks jhb! I didn't even think of that!
> 
> 1. What's the best way to verify that they're i386 and not also amd64? I thought i386 drivers will always work on amd64.

There are a few drivers that are i386 only.  My best guess was to just look at the rendered
release notes and check for "i386" annotations and use that as a guide.

> 2.  Should I remove the manuals also, or just remove the entries from the hardware release notes?

For now I think just the latter.  I think we should wait to remove the actual manuals until
we remove i386 kernel support from the tree.

-- 
John Baldwin