Thanks Janne for the tech insight. So, but for routerboards/CLI boxen, considering that this recent move hinders GUI for most P3s, the really viable ones remain P3s/K7s with different graphics boards (mostly desktop/tower) and early P4s without em64t. For all the following stuff there's no reason not to run amd64.
Quite obsoleting and now few machines in order to support a full architecture on the long run, like VAX has recently shown. Pity, because best laptop keyboards still belong to this arch. Il gio 16 apr 2020, 08:44 Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Den ons 15 apr. 2020 kl 23:29 skrev Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com>: > >> Is this a hint that soon i386 architecture will be deprecated? >> Considering that supported hw (at least graphics) is going more and more >> to >> overlap with amd64, at the very end i386 would remain only for some >> routerboards. >> > > i386 has seen a fair share of deprecations, from the actual 386 CPUs and > 486s without FPU, to machines with 8,16,32,64M ram for whom reordering libs > and kernel isn't really doable with recent OpenBSD releases. > > -- > May the most significant bit of your life be positive. >
