svn commit: r328388 - head/share/man/man8

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz>
wrote:

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> On 25 Jan 2018, at 17:43, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
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>> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> > Author: lwhsu (ports committer)
>> > Date: Thu Jan 25 05:15:44 2018
>> > New Revision: 328388
>> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/328388
>> >
>> > Log:
>> >   Fix manual page install on non-amd64
>> >
>> >   Reviewed by:        emaste, imp
>> >   Differential Revision:      https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14038
>>
>> Um, small technical nit, *efi is not amd64 only.  There is
>> a 32 bit efi spec that can apply to i386, and there is also
>> arm using efi.
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> We don't support either of those yet (though, we're super close on arm,
> we're not at all close on i386). Let's not confuse users until we're ready
> to let people use them.
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> We’ve had working arm support for over 2 years. The issue seems to be
> because we normally try to use it with U-Boot. Using the EDK2 base UEFI
> under qemu works.
>

Right. armv6/v7 support is kinda there, but most of the 'kinda' comes from
external factors, not our code base. Those have mostly been fixed, I think
the latest round of u-boot updates will be sufficient that we can recommend
using it...

Warner