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

On 8/3/23 2:36 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:57:08 UTC :
> 
>> On 7/27/23 10:49 AM, shurd@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>>> On 2023-05-24 01:35, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 23 May 2023 16:46:51 -0700
>>>> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/27/23 10:19 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>>> . . .
>>
>> It's not just about make tinderbox, it is also about keeping platforms
>> viable. One big example is that we probably need to start supporting the
>> use of rust in the base system in some form in the not too distant
>> future, but rust isn't supported on armv7 on FreeBSD (and someone would
>> need to do the work to make that happen).
> 
> I'm confused about the "isn't supported on armv7 on FreeBSD"
> claim:

Please see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254853
as an example.  According to that bug at least rustc is not doable
under qemu-user which is how armv7 packages are built.

-- 
John Baldwin