Re: What's the plan for powerpc64 in FreeBSD 16

Warner Losh <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:35:19 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote:

> What does "retire" exactly mean? I hope its just lack of official
> support but not the source code removal right? :-P
>

To be clear: If we move forward, we'd remove the code. It does nobody any
good to have rotting code in the tree. That's why mips, sparc64 and alpha
have all been removed entirely. It's why we've torn down all the v6 and
earlier arm support. This removal would be after the stable/16 branch.

Warner