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

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:21 AM Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2023-May-24 03:49:55 +0200, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> >I saw that info too.. but are we going to allow Intel dictate future
> >of computers and supported platforms to The FreeBSD Project?
> I don't see that as the FreeBSD Project allowing Intel to dictate its
> future direction but rather more exidence that chip vendors are also
> deprecating 32-bit support.
>
> >I am
> >convinced that everyone will move to RISC-V pretty soon anyway :-)
> Note that FreeBSD doesn't support 32-bit RISC-V

Thanks Peter.. I know 64-bit is now easier to maintain both in
software and hardware domain.. I just don't like "Enforced Changes
Ideologies" so things that worked well needs to be "just deleted and
replaced".. in most cases this is what destroys our current world..
its like history rewrite.. maybe marking code as "obsolete" /
"unsupported" / "abandoned" just for anyone ever wanting to play with
the code ever again rather than removing the code and leaving nothing
for the future.. I don't know what are the plans but I think code for
porting to other platforms should be preserved for various reasons
even when obsoleted it will be solid source of knowledge :-)

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