On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 08:22:43AM -1000, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 2/17/23 06:06, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:36:41AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > > I feel the discussion petered out without a conclusion. > > > > > > I don't think letting the status quo win by inertia is a good outcome > > > here. > > > > > > Which 32-bit hosts are still useful, and why? > > > > NetBSD runs on a bunch of 32 bit-only hosts (sparc32, ppc32, armv7, vax, > > mips32 etc.) that all run Qemu fine. They are all actively maintained and > > released as part of the main releases. > > Are you sure about that? TCG doesn't support sparc32 or vax. > I suppose you could be using TCI, but I can't even imagine how > slow that would be on vax.
I've asked around amongst active developers and they steted that they had used it in the past but not ianymore recently. I doubt normal users would use them often though since most hardware is 64 bit capable anyways. Reinoud
