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Authored by emaste on Aug 29 2025, 2:48 PM.
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[I was reviewing arch.7 again recently and found myself slightly confused by this statement. I think my update is what we want to convey?]

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Manuals are inherently tied to release, but perhaps it would be nice to:

and earlier are no longer supported by
.Fx 15.0
and later.

?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 29 2025, 3:11 PM

armv6 was still supported in 14.x, but arm (==v5) was dropped after 12.x so I don't really want to get into the releases. We could just go back to "not supported" if we want to make the comment timeless.

share/man/man7/arch.7
168

do we want to list armv4 and armv5 too?

share/man/man7/arch.7
168

That's what I meant with "armv6 and earlier"

share/man/man7/arch.7
168

Let me know if you think we want to be explicit, something like

Binaries targeting
.Dv armv6 ,
.Dv armv5 ,
and
.Dv arm
.Pq armv4
are no no longer supported by
.Fx .
imp added inline comments.
share/man/man7/arch.7
168

that's what I thought I wanted, but I think "and earlier" is good enough. We've not supported the armv[45] really since FreeBSD 10 or so, so 'and earlier' reads better than the full list. Thanks for working it up, but I think what you have is better.

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