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Date:      Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:32:42 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 223415] lang/rust: don't require SSE2 on i386 (at least for binary packages)
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Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #4)
> Can toolchain@ clarify plans regarding i386 support in future? Is FreeBSD
> going to be stuck targeting i486 until the architecture is dead?

I think the architecture itself will live on for quite some time, whether we
like it or not.  In my opinion we should start requiring at least i686 or
higher (or maybe even pentium4).

IIRC there have been plans to start an arch separate from i386, specifically
for updating to 64-bit time_t, that could maybe also be used for such an
update. :)

On the other hand, in Linux land there are already distros dropping i386
completely, e.g: https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-end-of-i686-support/


> How much
> effort port maintainers are supposed to exert for i486 if upstream projec=
ts
> couldn't care less? It's not like FreeBSD to care about ancient hardware
> (unlike NetBSD).

At some point, I guess we must simply stop supporting some ports for such
targets.  I can't be too long until firefox and chromium are simply too lar=
ge
to run in a 32-bit address space...

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