On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 14:13, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I have been of the opinion that armv[67] has met all the bullet points > to be a tier-1 arch for several years, but nobody seemed interested in > declaring it so. Now it'll never happen, because there seems to be > growing momentum to throw everything 32-bit under the bus and declare > freebsd to be a 64-bit-only OS. Netflix wins; those of us building > smaller embedded products will eventually be forced to move to linux.
I don't think this is the case. For one example, see the effort kib@ has been putting in (under Foundation sponsorship) on FreeBSD/i386. One of my co-op students this term is working on building out our hardware continuous integration testbed, including 32-bit Arm targets like the BeagleBone Black. Now, i386 has not been our primary reference platform for some time, and I expect that for 32-bit ports FreeBSD will largely be cross-built from amd64, arm64, or powerpc64 hosts. I think this is absolutely fine, and we can still support 32-bit devices well, but our current tier definitions don't fit this model well. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
