arch.7: Clarify older 32-bit arm support
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Authored by emaste on Aug 29 2025, 2:48 PM.

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rG64cfafee8dfe: arch.7: Clarify older 32-bit arm support

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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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emaste created this revision.Aug 29 2025, 2:48 PM

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emaste requested review of this revision.Aug 29 2025, 2:48 PM

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.

Either sgtm!

imp added inline comments.Aug 30 2025, 2:32 AM

share/man/man7/arch.7
168	do we want to list armv4 and armv5 too?

emaste added inline comments.Sep 3 2025, 2:05 PM

share/man/man7/arch.7
168	That's what I meant with "armv6 and earlier"

emaste added inline comments.Sep 3 2025, 2:24 PM

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 accepted this revision.Sep 3 2025, 2:30 PM

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.