Re: FreeBSD 15.1-BETA1 Now Available [armv7 status?]
Mario Marietto <[email protected]> Sat, 2 May 2026 19:27:46 +0200
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>> The first beta build of the 15.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. >> 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 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 Radxa Zero 3W ? ---> I miss you. I put a lot of work into improving FreeBSD for the Radxa Zero 3W,since I chose it as the main OS for the phone that I'm building. Before me some experienced developers did the same. So,maybe it deserves to be added to the list...what should be done to maintain it ? Mario. On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >> >> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com <http://www.tarsnap.com> | >> Online >> >> backups for the truly paranoid >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> === >> Mark Millard >> marklmi at yahoo.com >> > -- Mario.