On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 5:06 PM, ken mays via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> Peter, > 1. Yes. Many end users still own old 32-bit Pentium 4-based desktops and > laptops. > While true, that wasn't the question. The question is whether people are actively using OpenIndiana on said hardware. > 2. Yes, OI could ship 64-bit only applications/drivers/etc. > And such software exists. There are some applications that are 64-bit only by design - Go and anything written in it is an example here, and that's getting to be quite a large ecosystem. Then there are things that are shipped 64-bit by default - JDK8 is the obvious one, you can build it either 32 or 64 but on Solaris the default build is 64-bits. And then there's the fact that the upstream Oracle useland gate is aimed at a platform (Solaris) that no longer supports 32-bit hardware, so they can (and are doing so) choose to remove 32-bit support for certain applications. Hence OI can either follow them (and drop 32-bit support), or take on the maintenance burden of building a different bitness or bi-arch packages. OI has recent binary core snapshots and FOSS packages supporting 32-bit > platforms. Having a 64-bit only core distro snapshot and packages is just > forward thinking. Package maintainers can support either selection - but it > is no longer the norm to support both selections (32/64-bit packaging) if > the demand is not justified). > - Ken > > > > On Saturday, February 11, 2017 8:29 AM, Peter Tribble < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Something that came up in discussion while we were at FOSDEM was > whether it's safe to ship 64-bit only applications in OpenIndiana. > > Which begs the obvious question - is anyone running OpenIndiana on > hardware that isn't 64-bit? Please reply if so. > > To check, use the isainfo command. If "isainfo -k" returns "amd64" > (or "isainfo -b" returns "64") then you're running in 64-bit and should > happily ignore this question. If you get "i386" or "32" respectively > then it would be nice to know. > > Thanks, > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
