Re: Future of armv7

i watch this and i have question!

why does fbsd support more 32bit arms than 64bit arms?

if i look under allwinner section, i see 6 32bit socs and 3 64bit socs, why? allwinner has like, what, ~50, 64bit socs?! they come on devboards too

one of them is h618 which has cheap boards on which has one dev who lost interest and one potential user with dusty hw. why is it like that? and then we plan to remove 32bit arms

they also still make mips devices, which fbsd doesn't support anymore. those also target low power devices

i'm not so much pissed of armv7 going but more like where's the aarch64 hw to move onto?

bbb has praised for being good hw and i have it too. it doesn't work even now? and what about it's brother, 64bit one? ti also still makes socs!

is freebsd something where hw support is added, perfected, and quickly removed?

ok, i vaguely understand the frustration of handholding every different special snowflake piece of hw but there has to be some solution

i also never get why whole world revolves around rpi's as they don't make best nor cheapest boards but i guess those would need support too then

it would be awesome if fbsd would support arch that's common, be it armv7, aarch64, riscv64, or nga128 (completely made up 128bit next good arch platform)

and it would support reasonable set of platforms for reasonable set of usecases, be it server, desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, iot, industrial, whatever

also when armv7 support is removed i bet ton of people appear and ask why that decision was made behind their backs because it was

when i heard how usage stats was taken i was like wait a sec, surveys and downloads? that's it? that would only happen if people making decisions were as far from real life as possible

people attribute all that to politicans often, decision is made wrong, behind one's back, citizen is required to shuffle through ten thousand public documents to see if he was tricked again, and if (s)he misses it, it's automatically default accepted. later it's told how noone objected. noone even knew what, when, how to object