Deorbiting i386

[Maxim Sobolev]

The idea looks very inmature and short-sighted to me. i386 is here to stay
not as a server/desktop platform but as an embedded/low power/low cost
platform for at least 5-10 years to come. There are plenty of applications
in the world that don't need > 3gb of memory space and have no use for
extra bits (and extra silicon) to function. By quitting this space early
FreeBSD is going to make itself unavailable for those applications. We are
striving to support mips and the likes, with just tens of megabytes of
memory and marginal at best adoption. Yet seriously discussing ditching out
solid platform that has been our workforce for 20+ years??

-Max

On Thu, May 24, 2018, 5:40 PM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:22:37PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
> > All you need to know about sparc64 vitality is that HEAD didn't boot
> > for 3 months until last week.
>
> All you need to know is that -11 works fine, but, after so much drama
> from various places, I haven't even bothered upgrading any of my machines
> to 12.
>
> mcl
>
>