Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)
Warner Losh <[email protected]>
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On Mon, May 1, 2023, 10:34 AM John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/28/23 5:17 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > > John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A larger question is what to do about 32-bit platforms moving forward. > > > > FWIW while we do not use i386 kernels anymore > > compat32 support is very important. > > > > Some of our daemons are very pointer heavy and up to a certain scale > > point, a 32bit app is more memory efficient, of course the 64bit version > > can scale much bigger but many customers do not need that. > > Are you able to build your daemons with cc -32 with an amd64 world, or > do you require an i386 world to build against? > If the latter, do you use a chroot to build any ports Warner -- > John Baldwin > > >