Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:58:51 +0100 From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's the plan for powerpc64 in FreeBSD 16 Message-ID: <CAFYkXjntB0L-7M2M_N6DL=OcBsD-FoM5BUZfd88RHAp93CeB4w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoj0ENbd2ovKVRki-9CdrZirrwmxcSxxZD8uxkeTQ8sFw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfrQthqYeGYD_9LRcH94JJZuF2%2BUxAqf7Lcoe6p5VzJf9g@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjn%2BTWHevtMtPj9V7MLMHBChL%2BeqiBv1Puru0pkzRT14Vg@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfoj0ENbd2ovKVRki-9CdrZirrwmxcSxxZD8uxkeTQ8sFw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: >> What does "retire" exactly mean? I hope its just lack of official >> support but not the source code removal right? :-P > > To be clear: If we move forward, we'd remove the code. It does nobody any good to have rotting code in the tree. That's why mips, sparc64 and alpha have all been removed entirely. It's why we've torn down all the v6 and earlier arm support. This removal would be after the stable/16 branch. Uhm, I see, thanks Imp, well maybe at least "archive" tar and git repo providing "last known working configuration" ? :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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