On 2024-10-17, Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it> wrote:
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> I just don't get the point for trying to support 32bit hardware on a
> 64bit system. If the hardware does not support 64bit but is limited to
> 32bit, use i386. If the hardware supports 64bit, just don't limit it to
> 32bit. Does not make sense to me making a 64bit OS support 32bit
> devices. Of course, there is an upgrade path. amd64 just should fail to
> boot on any hardware not 100% 64bit capable. For such hardware use i386.
> Either the hardware is fully 64bit ready, or it is not. In my opinion
> amd64 should really give up on anything 32bit and should really just
> refuse to boot non 100% 64bit capable systems at all.
What on earth are you talking about?
Of course you can't run 64 bit versions of OpenBSD on 32 bit hardware.
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