[OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit support in OpenIndiana Hipster

[Jonathan Adams]

I don't personally use NDIS for my wireless (I bought Intel to make sure I
didn't) but if this is still being used by anyone then 32-bit support is
generally mandated for a lot of that.

Apart from that, I still have Solaris 10 for 32-bit, and an Ubuntu install
server for anything more ancient (pre-pentium 3)

Jon

On 16 February 2015 at 12:15, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> 16 февраля 2015 г. 11:06:06 CET, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> пишет:
> >Hello.
> >
> >We currently support (in some way) 32-bit systems. We avoid shipping
> >64-binaries in default path or use isaexec for such things.
> >But do we really need it? I haven't seen PC (not speaking about server)
> >
> >without 64-bit CPU for at least 8 years.
> >
> >Dropping support for 32-bit systems will allow us to port Oracle
> >sources
> >easier. Potentially, this solves time_t overflow. We could think about
> >largefile support less.
> >
> >What are the cons of keeping support for 32-bit systems? I don't see
> >much. If you see them, please, speak now.
> >
> >I'm inclined to make changes, breaking 32-bit systems only after next
> >ISO snapshot. Of course, 32-bit libraries will be preserved.
>
> My main guess for 'pros' of retaining support would be small-footprint
> systems including colocation of many smallish VMs even on modern hardware.
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