On February 28, 2019 11:21:24 AM PST, Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: >On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:14:51AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: >> On February 28, 2019 11:06:46 AM PST, Conrad Meyer <cem_at_freebsd.org> >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. >> > >> >> We deprecated and removed support for 386 and 486 processors. We >should consider removing support for low end Pentium as well. I'm >specifically thinking of removing the workarounds like F00F. Are there >any processors that are still vulnerable to this? >> > >Ahem, sys/i386/conf/GENERIC contains "cpu I486_CPU". >Is that a typo? I stand corrected. We should remove that. -- Pardon the typos and autocorrect, small keyboard in use. Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy_at_FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.Received on Thu Feb 28 2019 - 23:14:35 UTC
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