Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)

On Mon, May 1, 2023, 10:34 AM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 4/28/23 5:17 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> A larger question is what to do about 32-bit platforms moving forward.
> >
> > FWIW while we do not use i386 kernels anymore
> > compat32 support is very important.
> >
> > Some of our daemons are very pointer heavy and up to a certain scale
> > point, a 32bit app is more memory efficient, of course the 64bit version
> > can scale much bigger but many customers do not need that.
>
> Are you able to build your daemons with cc -32 with an amd64 world, or
> do you require an i386 world to build against?
>

If the latter, do you use a chroot to build any ports

Warner

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