Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:12:09 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: cem@freebsd.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: r343567 aka PAE vs non-PAE merge breaks i386 freebsd Message-ID: <55eb26fb977fe90e323a8721e39bfc0185d994ba.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpWasUzvHv56t8trK_6=wr-o_w4PnNDUir-Ye=kQXofoOQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20190222033924.GA25285@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20190222060410.GA25817@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20190223032644.GA14058@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAG6CVpW7y1qwxeU_gNWGmnKsgUkXKUTnmSwd3O2ByPdo_EO3uw@mail.gmail.com> <20190223163947.GB18805@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <f38f2329-900b-2ae2-02e6-e1b993f9250a@FreeBSD.org> <20190228183214.GA17372@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAG6CVpWasUzvHv56t8trK_6=wr-o_w4PnNDUir-Ye=kQXofoOQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 11:06 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:32 AM Steve Kargl > <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > This is interesting as well. Does this mean that amd64 is now > > the only tier 1 platform and all other architectures are after > > thoughts? > > This has been the de facto truth for years. i386 is mostly only > supported by virtue of sharing code with amd64. There are efforts to > promote arm64 to Tier 1, but it isn't there yet. Power8+ might be > another good alternative Tier 1 candidate eventually. None have > anything like the developer popularity that amd64 enjoys. > > I have been of the opinion that armv[67] has met all the bullet points to be a tier-1 arch for several years, but nobody seemed interested in declaring it so. Now it'll never happen, because there seems to be growing momentum to throw everything 32-bit under the bus and declare freebsd to be a 64-bit-only OS. Netflix wins; those of us building smaller embedded products will eventually be forced to move to linux. -- Ian
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