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misc/59533: boot.cfg(5) also used by evbarm (not only i386,amd64)



>Number:         59533
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       boot.cfg(5) also used by evbarm (not only i386,amd64)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 21 00:20:00 +0000 2025
>Originator:     Steve Rikli
>Release:        10.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD rpi4.home.genyosha.net 10.1_STABLE NetBSD 10.1_STABLE (GENERIC64) #0: Mon Jul 14 18:42:13 UTC 2025  mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64 evbarm

>Description:
The evbarm port can also use /boot.cfg (at least some of the functionality, it
is used by bootaa64.efi) per comment from martin@ in the mailing list:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2025/07/17/msg009321.html

BUGS section of boot.cfg(5) man page says:

     Support for boot.cfg is currently for NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/amd64 only.
     It is hoped that its use will be extended to other appropriate ports that
     use the boot(8) interface.

Simple suggestion would be to update just the first sentence:

    Support for boot.cfg is currently for NetBSD/i386, NetBSD/amd64, and
    NetBSD/evbarm only.

However there is also distrib/sparc64/bootfs/boot.cfg so maybe that one as well?

>How-To-Repeat:
man boot.cfg
>Fix:



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