Re: Selection of roadmap for i386 platform End-of-Life (EOL)

No NX-bit on i386.

Long live x64.




On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Justin Sherrill
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:15 AM, John Marino <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 1) Agreement on the EOL date (or Release if it's pegged to a release)
>
> I'd rather peg to a release; I'd assume we'd want to truncate i386 at
> the time of a release, instead of somewhere between two releases.
> Since release dates can be a little floaty, that's easier to manage.
>
> > 2) A declaration of which road map will be used (method #1 or #2)
>
> I don't know what the usage ratio of i386-only machines is at this
> point; I'd feel more confident if I knew the impact, but there's no
> way to find that out.
>
> #2 (Or Sam's #3) appeals to me just because I've wanted something that
> could be called a long-term support release for a while.  A
> disadvantage of x86_64 is no linuxlator support, but keeping i386
> around isn't going to solve that problem.
>



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