arm support documentation [was: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black]

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Tuesday, July 16, 2019 2:33:51 AM CEST Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 05:44:32PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > If enough people are interested, I can put together a page modeled on
> > this, and we can see where it goes from there.
> 
> Turning the existing rpi table on the wiki on its side gives us the
> following prototype:

That's really useful as a prototype. I'd be happy to add some rows for boards 
I have (Pine stuff, mostly, where ehaupt is infinitely more knowledgable, but 
I feel I ought to help anyway)

Some questions about the columns, layout, etc., not meant as nit-picking.

 - What does the "family" column mean? Would those get "BCM..." for the Pi's, 
and AW-A64, AW-H6 etc for Allwinner based boards?
 - Would it be useful to include core type information in here? There was a 
recent thread about cores (A53 vs A72 for instance) which would steer board 
selection. (It might not be: this table looks like "you have this thing, 
here's what you can get out of it on FBSD" and the cores are not influenced by 
the FBSD part).
 - Is there a nice ? icon? It might be more aesthetically pleasing to have 
consistent widths of the symbols.
 - Is there a semantic difference between <checkmark> (footnote) and just 
(footnote)?
 - Should the camera column have camera-interface information?
 - For the Pi Zero, why is there b/g/n in the notes column? Shouldn't that be 
in the Wifi column?


.. just *commenting* on this table drives home that it needs some kind of tool 
support to manage all the footnotes and whatnots.

[ade]
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