Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 07:01:34 +0900 From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: c16e08e5f324 - main - stand/efi: Retire i386 support Message-ID: <20230512070134.eb633400d68cf7c0813d7fde@dec.sakura.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <ec5a7c91-2267-6072-c8f3-044de4ee8cdd@aetern.org> References: <CANCZdfp9J=V8MBQ%2B%2B_WQnF6bU_%2Bpa%2BYYJpnJEewHR5iiYmng5w@mail.gmail.com> <202305112049.34BKnuJK060304@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <CANCZdfqsrHZuSTbCP830jrzHGpDh8CL0a3wpqtq189%2Bk69b93w@mail.gmail.com> <ec5a7c91-2267-6072-c8f3-044de4ee8cdd@aetern.org>
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On Thu, 11 May 2023 23:08:30 +0200 Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023, 2:50 PM Rodney W. Grimes > > <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net <mailto:freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>> > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023, 2:16 PM Yuri <yuri@aetern.org > > <mailto:yuri@aetern.org>> wrote: > > > > > > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > The branch main has been updated by imp: > > > > > > > > > > URL: > > > > > > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=c16e08e5f324aa119c85e10eaabacbd2abdb40e0 <https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=c16e08e5f324aa119c85e10eaabacbd2abdb40e0>; > > > > > > > > > > commit c16e08e5f324aa119c85e10eaabacbd2abdb40e0 > > > > > Author: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> > > > > > AuthorDate: 2023-05-11 20:04:12 +0000 > > > > > Commit: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> > > > > > CommitDate: 2023-05-11 20:06:03 +0000 > > > > > > > > > > stand/efi: Retire i386 support > > > > > > > > > > Remove the i386 ifdefs and files. It never worked. > > > > > > > > > > Sponsored by: Netflix > > > > > Reviewed by: manu, tsoome, kevans > > > > > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40012 > > <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40012>; > > > > > > > > As this question seems to be asked a lot on the forums, does > > this mean > > > > we will never support the 32bit efi booting 64bit OS? > > > > > > > > > > Yes. It means we've given up on that. Such environments are rare these > > > days, as far as I know, so unless someone shows up with something that > > > works perfectly with a qemu testing recipe that we can roll it > > into out > > > test bed. Plus some kind of info on real hardware that does this > > that's > > > popular enough to justify inclusion. > > > > I have only ever seen 1 implementation of x86 32bit efi, and it was > > such a pile of turds I just scrapped the machine. > > > > > > That was my experience as well, so I biased my action towards just > > removing it. If it turns out my experience was somehow atypical and > > these are popular and very much robust, I'm open to learning about it. > > I just noticed that it was asked several times in the last few months > trying to use FreeBSD on not-so-modern and rather exotic hardware; I > don't think we really need that support, but I simply wasn't aware of > efi32 status before this commit, hence I asked :) Just a FYI. A subscriber (not me) tried ASUS EeeBook X205TA (manufactured "2015-04") through Mar.18, 2021 to Apr.13, 2021 without luck on freebsd-usrs-jp ML (in Japanese, started from [1], [2] for April). Atom CPU Z3735F @1.33GHz, 2GB RAM Shipped with "Windows 8.1 with Bing (32bit)" installed. [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-users-jp/2021-March/001728.html [2] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-users-jp/2021-April/001746.html -- Tomoaki AOKI] <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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