Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:04:39 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r356758 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall: . scripts Message-ID: <914e14637b54721aa32b26071c020c767f249186.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20200123042000.GA16137@lonesome.com> References: <6C674E9A-5946-4424-AEA1-689D2DA3C256.ref@yahoo.com> <6C674E9A-5946-4424-AEA1-689D2DA3C256@yahoo.com> <CAOc73CAt83ZcEDt_m3iBwEHKBWxaeOmbshwGrATx%2BGe_VU65Nw@mail.gmail.com> <20200123042000.GA16137@lonesome.com>
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On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 04:20 +0000, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:05:19PM +0800, Ben Woods wrote: > > I suspect most small arm boards are still typically 32bit arm? > > No, most have moved to 64-bit. > > mcl > I'm not sure that's true at all. I'll bet more people are running freebsd on 32 bit arm right now, but the balance is shifting. Plenty of arm32 boards are still being sold, and some new boards are even still being developed. The 32 bit world is already largely oriented towards embedded systems (phones, automobile entertainment systems, point of sale kiosks, that sort of thing), and that isn't likely to go away any time soon. There are also low-cost low-power 64 bit boards intended primarily for embedded systems development and use. Even though they're 64 bit processors, they almost all have either 2 or 4GB of ram. It's not clear to me that the availability of such boards is going to drive 32 bit arm into extinction in the near future. -- Ian
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