Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 09:34:41 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, 'freebsd-arch' <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386) Message-ID: <5dcf4aae-258d-c0a0-91f6-ffa77177e716@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <82207.1682727452@kaos.jnpr.net> References: <aaa3e005-5f72-f422-56b1-932842379e15@FreeBSD.org> <82207.1682727452@kaos.jnpr.net>
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On 4/28/23 5:17 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: >> A larger question is what to do about 32-bit platforms moving forward. > > FWIW while we do not use i386 kernels anymore > compat32 support is very important. > > Some of our daemons are very pointer heavy and up to a certain scale > point, a 32bit app is more memory efficient, of course the 64bit version > can scale much bigger but many customers do not need that. Are you able to build your daemons with cc -32 with an amd64 world, or do you require an i386 world to build against? -- John Baldwin
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