Re: FreeBSD 15.1-BETA1 Now Available

On 5/1/26 22:37, Colin Percival wrote:
> The first beta build of the 15.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
> 
> Installation images are available for:
> 
> o 15.1-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC
> o 15.1-BETA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
> o 15.1-BETA1 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
> o 15.1-BETA1 armv7 GENERICSD
> o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 GENERIC
> o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 RPI
> o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64
> o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
> o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINEBOOK
> o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 ROCK64
> o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
> o 15.1-BETA1 riscv64 GENERIC
> o 15.1-BETA1 riscv64 GENERICSD
> 
> . . .

I will reminder of:

On 11/19/25 12:00, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 9:22 AM Colin Percival <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/19/25 08:05, Mark Millard wrote:
>     > The various:
>     >
>     > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.0-*/
>     <https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.0-*/>
>     >
>     > have: aarch64/ arm64/ powerpc64/ powerpc64le/ riscv64/
>     >
>     > So they include the tier 2 powerpc64 and powerpc64le but not
>     > the tier 2 armv7. Is that intentional?
>
>     Sort of.  The pkgbase repos are built as part of the process of
building
>     installer images, which we don't do for armv7; all we provide for
>     armv7 is
>     a single embedded image.
>
>
> We should fix that, but 15.1R. There's lots of good reasons to have this
> be regular.
>
> Warner
>
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>     Colin Percival
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