Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 11:47:24 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@kronometrix.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RPi4 Status and sysutils/rpi-firmware Message-ID: <20210303114724.81797c63767d6b09f5f70f59@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <DA31F9D6-D1A0-42EF-94D9-D5CC194568B4@kronometrix.org> References: <20210302122057.86ba62bb1daa7f922134ecd9@bidouilliste.com> <DA31F9D6-D1A0-42EF-94D9-D5CC194568B4@kronometrix.org>
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 11:52:23 +0200 Stefan Parvu <sparvu@kronometrix.org> wrote: > > > I won't do anything anymore on the rpi-firmware port and we need a > > maintainer for this platform. > > FreeBSD core should review these. ARM architecture is and will be important for future. Review what ? > 1. ARMv8 should be upgraded from Tier 2 to Tier 1, as a supported platform. Companies will not develop on FreeBSD if we dont properly support it. > https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ <https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/>; There is a lot of other arm64 platforms. > 2. And you cant have a supported platform sfor further development without ownership and maintenance. So, for sure the platform requires a maintainer. I'm only stopping from maintaining the rpi-firmware port, that doesn't mean that I stop from doing arm/arm64 dev and that doesn't stop other people doing arm/arm64 dev. > Stefan > -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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