On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 11:06 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:32 AM Steve Kargl > <sgk_at_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. -- IanReceived on Thu Feb 28 2019 - 18:12:24 UTC
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