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