Deorbiting i386

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, May 26, 2018, 1:58 AM David Chisnall <theraven at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 26 May 2018, at 00:41, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > If you've seen any of the atom bay trail systems in action you may
> understand what I mean. You get full blown x64 system with four cores and
> it takes only 2W of power.
>
> Which is pretty much my point - if you want a low-power x86 system for
> embedded use, it’s going to be x86-64, not x86-32 (though hopefully you’re
> using a 32-bit ABI with it).
>


The only viable 32bit abi on FreeBSD is i386 now. And that works today.
Sure, other theoretical ones are out there, but none are close to
production ready on FreeBSD. Until they are, talk of removing i386 support
is just crazy talk that will go nowhere.

Warner

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