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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:02:53 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>,  src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r328388 - head/share/man/man8
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfr-sjDy7V5LVSg6xMs4TOAQahpFoNEb4Jjf7NuEoKy=SA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <798D3B3D-2CC2-4DE6-844E-FE6745B8D88E@fubar.geek.nz>
References:  <201801250515.w0P5FiLk008095@repo.freebsd.org> <201801251651.w0PGpqrF000743@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CANCZdfpVE8SxEr2vpB%2BbirD0LPvsgbFxZ=Vm-WvqdpVBnkLt6Q@mail.gmail.com> <798D3B3D-2CC2-4DE6-844E-FE6745B8D88E@fubar.geek.nz>

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

>
> On 25 Jan 2018, at 17:43, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>
>> [ 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.
>>
>
> 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 read=
y
> to let people use them.
>
>
> We=E2=80=99ve had working arm support for over 2 years. The issue seems t=
o 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



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