On 03/11/15 13:59, Karel Dingeldey wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 07:23PM, Edwin Amsler wrote:
Is there an official reason why ARMv7 was excluded from the 5.6 release?
I've got my assumptions, but I'd like to know if it was a conscious decision or
not.
Hi Edwin,
did you receive any feedback on your question? What assumption would that be?
I'm thinking about using OpenBSD on my BeagleBone Black devices, but
since 5.6 did not get any armv7 support (without any obvious official
statement given), I'm wondering if that would be a wise decision right now.
Even if 5.7 in May appears with it, can I presume that the coming releases
will all support armv7?!
Wondering what you think about it.
Kind regards
Karel
bbb:fred ~> uname -a; dmesg |head -4
OpenBSD bbb.crowsons.com 5.7 GENERIC-OMAP#15 armv7
OpenBSD 5.7-beta (GENERIC-OMAP) #15: Wed Feb 25 15:10:42 AEDT 2015
j...@armv7.jsg.id.au:/usr/src/sys/arch/armv7/compile/GENERIC-OMAP
real mem = 536870912 (512MB)
avail mem = 518791168 (494MB)
bbb:fred ~>
My beagle bone black is working with OpenBSD, as shown above.
There is on going development on armv7, but it is not getting much
developer time, I believe that it was felt that it is in need of further
development to be brought up to release standard.
I don't have the skills to improve the port, but I do run it successfully.
hth
Fred
