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

Hi John,

Am Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 09:34:17PM -0700 schrieb John Baldwin:
> On 8/3/23 2:36 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
> > John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
> > Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:57:08 UTC :
> > 
> >> On 7/27/23 10:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>> On 2023-05-24 01:35, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 23 May 2023 16:46:51 -0700
> >>>> John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 4/27/23 10:19 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>>>> . . .
> >>
> >> It's not just about make tinderbox, it is also about keeping platforms
> >> viable. One big example is that we probably need to start supporting the
> >> use of rust in the base system in some form in the not too distant
> >> future, but rust isn't supported on armv7 on FreeBSD (and someone would
> >> need to do the work to make that happen).
> > 
> > I'm confused about the "isn't supported on armv7 on FreeBSD"
> > claim:
> 
> Please see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254853
> as an example.  According to that bug at least rustc is not doable
> under qemu-user which is how armv7 packages are built.

It builds natively just fine.  This is a problem with qemu-user, not
rust.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

> -- 
> John Baldwin
> 
> 

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