share/man/man7/build.7
585	the actual paths are `/boot/${INSTKERNNAME}` and `/boot/${INSTKERNNAME}.NAME`, where `INSTKERNNAME` defaults to "kernel". this is useful information (especially for pkgbase users), so it might be worth mentioning.
589	this existing text is not technically correct: for powerpc64, the default kernel is `GENERIC64`, and for powerpc64le, it's `GENERIC64LE`. those are both tier 2 platforms, so i don't know if that's worth mentioning.

that sounds good, worked that in, thanks.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B72052: Diff 175104.Apr 8 2026, 1:03 PM

this looks okay, other than a couple of nits that i won't insist on. i do wonder if we want to be more explicit about how this affects pkgbase, but i don't think this is the right place for that.

share/man/man7/build.7
582	it might be worth mentioning more explicitly how this affects where the kernel will be installed, e.g. if you run: % make INSTKERNNAME=testkernel buildkernel installkernel then the kernel will be installed to `/boot/testkernel`. the existing text, "an alternative name to build and install", doesn't seem very meaningful to me. (as far as i know, this doesn't affect the build at all, only how it's installed.)
597	this also affects PowerPC targets, not just POWER -- `powerpc` runs on both, and we do still support some old Mac PowerPC systems. (i think the embedded Freescale/NXP stuff is now branded as "Power Architecture" rather than PowerPC.) specifically, this applies when `TARGET=powerpc` and either `TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64` or `TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64le`. if we can't come up with reasonable language to express that concisely, i'm okay with leaving it as "POWER architectures".

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 9 2026, 1:22 PM

ziaee marked 2 inline comments as done.Apr 13 2026, 10:18 PM

ziaee added inline comments.

share/man/man7/build.7
582	I agree that the existing text is not crystal clear, but I think the text immediately below fixes it. We could definitely improve it though.
597	So, it applies to all POWER architectures? PowerPC is a derivative of the original POWER.