On 26 April 2013 04:25, Chris Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/25/13 22:16, Matthew Dillon wrote: >> >> There's still one serious issue which is that Intel's initial >> foray into mobile is 32-bit. We can't really EOL 32-bit as long >> as Intel and/or AMD are still producing 32-bit-only chips.
Didn't DragonFly stop supporting the original i386 prior to Intel stopping the production, which was as late as 2007, according to wikipedia? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 > > > By mobile do you mean tablet? > > >> (Though even in the mobile space I expect things will move rapidly >> to 64-bit due to competition from ARM). > > > There is also still the 'embedded servers' e.g. soekris where DF > is quite applicable as an OS Does anyone run DragonFly on a Soekris? Why? > (though latest soekris boxes are 64bit capable) I don't recall that DragonFly is deemed reliable on machines with an ancient amount of memory. Based on user-reports on the mailing lists alone, I, personally, wouldn't run DragonFly on a machine with less than 512MB of RAM, so, as per Dillon, some earlier Atom-based netbooks are indeed the most notable non-64bit devices that would, unfortunately, be unsupported when the i386 support goes away. C.
