freebsd-arm description?

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:26:02 +0100, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 2:28 PM, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> You might want to toss 'modern' in front of the processors, since we  
> mostly talk about that here, with the odd question about legacy things  
> that have gotten broken. But I'm easy.
>
> Warner

Drop the point that it is a list for people. It is about 'running FreeBSD  
on ARM processors' AFAIK.

Ronald.