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

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:43:43 UTC 
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 10:34 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 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.
>

I'l need to test this again. A number of interesting bugs have been fixed
in upstream.

Also, I thought we'd shifted building armv7 packages on an aarch64
server that can runs 32-bit jails...

Warner