Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)

Warner Losh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:20 AM John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:

> My proposal is that for 14.x we treat i386 like any other Tier 2
> platform.  That is, release images and packages would only be provided
> on a best-effort basis, and we would not guarantee providing them.  I
> think we should also stop shipping binary updates for the base system
> (freebsd-update) for 14.x for i386.
>

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html

contains Intel's plans for the future. They have removed support for booting
16/32-bit and non-UEFI from their firmware as of 2020...

Warner
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