FCP-100: armv7 plan

Sat Sep 9 19:06:04 UTC 2017

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> This will serve as 'Last Call' for any objections to the plan to create an
> armv7 MACHINE_ARCH in FreeBSD, as documented in FCP-0100.
[...]

Some ports want NEON support but FCP-0100 is vague about FreeBSD-specific
differences between armv6 and armv7. Clang appears to enable NEON for all
*-gnueabi* targets but I have no clue about GCC. Apparently, Android and
Debian don't assume NEON on armv7.

related: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221898