freebsd-arm description?

George Neville-Neil gnn at neville-neil.com
Mon Nov 25 21:29:05 UTC 2013


On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:24 , Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 16:07 -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:05 , Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> According to this page:
>>> 
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm
>>> 
>>> “[This mailing list] is for individuals actively working on
>>> porting FreeBSD to the StrongArm Processor.”
>>> 
>>> How do we change that to something a bit more accurate?
>>> (I´ve recently heard from someone who passed over
>>> this mailing list because they didn´t think it applied to
>>> more modern ARM processors.)
>>> 
>>> Maybe:
>>> 
>>> “This is a technical mailing list for people working to
>>> develop and support FreeBSD on various ARM
>>> processors and SOCs.”
>>> 
>> 
>> +postmaster@
>> 
>> I think they can do this.
>> 
>> Best,
>> George
>> 
> 
> It might be better to say "systems" or "computers" in place of SOCs.
> Our focus historically has been on the chip/SoC, but increasingly ARM
> processors are finding their way into off-the-shelf retail computers.

I think if we leave off “and SOCs” we’ll run the correct gamut.

Best
George



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