On 16 Aug 2023, at 11:55, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 8/16/23 9:53 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>> The branch main has been updated by jhb:
>>
>> URL:
>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=da51a1211dc799fa123f5d7f041eaf83c36f976b
>>
>> commit da51a1211dc799fa123f5d7f041eaf83c36f976b
>> Author: John Baldwin <[email protected]>
>> AuthorDate: 2023-08-16 16:49:17 +0000
>> Commit: John Baldwin <[email protected]>
>> CommitDate: 2023-08-16 16:52:16 +0000
>>
>> RELNOTES: Note the deprecation of 32-bit platforms for 15.0.
>> This draws a line in the sand of removing support for 32-bit worlds
>> and kernels aside from COMPAT_FREEBSD32 and lib32 support. The
>> project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is released by
>> extending some level of 32-bit support in 15.0 or later.
>> In particular, at present there is a fair bit of interest in
>> retaining
>> armv7 support in 15.0 at least.
>
> This language probably needs further tweaking before 14.0 ships, but it's a
> start at least, and we need to get the associated warning into 14.0 to give
> users lots of heads up before 15.0 ships.
From the RELNOTES entry:
+ FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
That sounds quite definite, although it is softened in the last paragraph.
Maybe "is not planned to include" or something like that?
Mike
> --
> John Baldwin
