On 4/26/2013 05:16, Matthew Dillon wrote:
There's still one serious issue which is that Intel's initial
foray into mobile is 32-bit. We can't really EOL 32-bit as long
as Intel and/or AMD are still producing 32-bit-only chips.
Would DragonFly legitimately ever be installed on such a chip? As
interesting as it would be, I don't see DragonFly ever powering a phone
or mobile device. (does this mean tablet?)
(Though even in the mobile space I expect things will move rapidly
to 64-bit due to competition from ARM).
Other then that, 32-bit is dead. Even minimalist machines coming
out today can have more than 4G and the larger KVM area on 64-bit
is becoming very important for resource management.
From what I've seen, DragonFly has never targeted every device or older
devices. Other Operating Systems have that "mission", but DragonFly is
getting a reputation as the "innovation" BSD and that implies a more
aggressive approach to features that can impeded. If the chips you
mention above won't realistically run DragonFly anyway, I don't see that
as a blocker or "serious issue" regarding 32-bit EOL, but then everyone
already knew that. :)
John
