On 2/28/19 11:14 AM, Cy Schubert wrote: > On February 28, 2019 11:06:46 AM PST, Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:32 AM Steve Kargl >> <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: >>> This is interesting as well. Does this mean that amd64 is now >>> the only tier 1 platform and all other architectures are after >>> thoughts? >> >> This has been the de facto truth for years. i386 is mostly only >> supported by virtue of sharing code with amd64. There are efforts to >> promote arm64 to Tier 1, but it isn't there yet. Power8+ might be >> another good alternative Tier 1 candidate eventually. None have >> anything like the developer popularity that amd64 enjoys. >> >> Conrad >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > We deprecated and removed support for 386 and 486 processors. We should > consider removing support for low end Pentium as well. I'm specifically > thinking of removing the workarounds like F00F. Are there any processors that > are still vulnerable to this?
We have only removed support for 386 since it didn't support cmpxchg. We still nominally support 486s. I don't know how well FreeBSD 13 would run on a 486, but in theory the code is still there and the binaries shouldn't die with illegal instruction faults. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
