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

On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 10:39 AM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:

> [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
>

Yes. I said we should provide pkgbase sets for armv7. I didn't volunteer to
do the work
to make it happen.

Warner


> >
> > 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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