Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 09:08:32 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386) Message-ID: <00E63ECC-2E7B-4C9F-9903-A8BD67278C00@yahoo.com> References: <00E63ECC-2E7B-4C9F-9903-A8BD67278C00.ref@yahoo.com>
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com> wrote on Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 06:35:55 UTC : > . . . >=20 > I personnaly see armv7 in "degraded maintainance mode" since 13.0, > nothing really intersting was added, no new SoC support even if there > was some interesting one that we could support, no new drivers for > supported platforms. We even lost TI BeagleBone support because no one > really have the time to keep support up to date. > I still have some little cute boards that I want to use from time to > time but the lack of proper porting of new language (like rust and = iirc > go have problems too) is making new software unusable on those boards > (you can't even make some "smart speaker" for spotify as all the > spotify clients are in rust). > IMX6 support is stalled since ian@ passed away and mmel@ isn't very > active atm and they were both the most actives developers for armv7 = low > level code. One of the things for tier 2 is: (from https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/#archs 21.4. Tier 2 section) QUOTE Collectively, developers are required to provide the following to maintain the Tier 2 status of a platform: =E2=80=A2 Tier 2 architectures must have an active ecosystem of = users and developers. END QUOTE Is there an implication that, even for 14, the "developers" part of that for armv7 has dropped off to the point that tier 2 would reasonably be in question? =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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