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

Errata Corrige : "since I chose it as the main board for the phone that I'm
building"

On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
wrote:

> >> 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.
>


-- 
Mario.