I'd hoped that aarch64 (ARM) would now be a tier 1 architecture in 13 but that's not to be the case (https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ https://www.freebsd.org/

I'd hoped that aarch64 (ARM) would now be a tier 1 architecture in 13 but that's not to be the case (https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/) and the FreeBSD wiki page on what's required to make aarch64 a Tier 1 architecture was flagged as being out of date ~18 months ago (https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMTier1 https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMTier1). For info, a key thing about Tier 1 architectures is that "Binary updates and source patches for Security Advisories and Errata Notices will be provided for supported releases" (https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers...), which would make maintaining ARM-based SBCs much easier (no need for setting up cross-compilation toolchains or for very slow compilation on the SBCs) and could make FreeBSD an even better OS for IoT stuff.