Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 09:28:53 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: New CPUTYPE default for i386 port Message-ID: <CANCZdfoFPsjyuCTfm0dQhz%2BsgVHLEvMA8-E3-Yhciz67qdoKvw@mail.gmail.com>
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For a variety of reasons, the time has come to change the default code generation arch from i486 to i686 on our i386 port. No actual code removal is planned as part of this effort. Only the default is doing changed for clang. The practical upshot of this for our i386 users will be zero for almost everybody. For the tiny sliver of people planning to deploy FreeBSD on a i486 or i586 core, a simple addition of CPUTYPE=xxxx to /etc/make.conf is all that is needed for the src side of things. They will need to setup their own poudriere instance and create their own pkg repo to build whatever packages are required for their deployment. It's my belief that even in the trailing edge long tail embedded deployment segment of our user base this will cause no issues. All deployments there I'm aware of have moved of i486 class CPUs and the one 586 class core deployment I know of has no plans to update that to FreeBSD 11, let alone newer. There are a number of advantages to doing this which have been articulated at length in other discussions. Briefly we get better code generation for CPUs people use and we avoid some test failures in llvm 9.0 because i486 doesn't have 64-bot atomics. Comments? Warner
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