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On Apr 1, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> 	From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
> 	Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:48:08 -0400
> 	Subject: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture
> 	To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Hackers =
<freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
>=20
> 	should drop support for the i386 architecture for 10.0 to tier 2
> 	and replace it with the ARM architecture as Tier 1.
>=20
> don't care for i386, don't use it anymore.
>=20
> Is ARM really ready for tier 1?
> Including the ports infrastructure?
> Installation images?

It is certainly getting close, at least for the newer armv6+ boards.

Warner