Re: FreeBSD 15.1-BETA1 Now Available [armv7 status?]

[The replies to my note went off in another direction so this is
basically a resend with a text adjustment to the subject to identify the
purpose of the note explicitly.]

On 5/2/26 04:57, Mark Millard wrote:
> 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:

"remind", not "reminder". Sorry.

> 
> 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
>>
>>     --
>>     Colin Percival
>>     FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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>>
> 
> 
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