On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 14:13, Ian Lepore <ian_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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. I don't think this is the case. For one example, see the effort kib_at_ has been putting in (under Foundation sponsorship) on FreeBSD/i386. One of my co-op students this term is working on building out our hardware continuous integration testbed, including 32-bit Arm targets like the BeagleBone Black. Now, i386 has not been our primary reference platform for some time, and I expect that for 32-bit ports FreeBSD will largely be cross-built from amd64, arm64, or powerpc64 hosts. I think this is absolutely fine, and we can still support 32-bit devices well, but our current tier definitions don't fit this model well.Received on Fri Mar 01 2019 - 13:29:07 UTC
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