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

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:42:54 UTC 
On 8/3/23 23:34, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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, shurd@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>>>> On 2023-05-24 01:35, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 23 May 2023 16:46:51 -0700
>>>>> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 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.
> 

To be clear, that really only matters for user builds. bsd-user has been 
replaced in all official builders, as far as I'm aware, and official 
armv7 packages are done with COMPAT32 on an arm64 boxen.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans