Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD

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    • For the modern server/desktop and even laptop, that's also no bad thing. It is somewhat ridiculous that UEFI bioses, internally, still boot in 16-bit real mode and have to do all the steps your bios bootloader used to do to set up a 64-bit environment ready to go: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/edc6681206c1a8791981a..., https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/edc6681206c1a8791981a..., https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/edc6681206c1a8791981a...

    Why not just start the CPU in "long mode", which is what everyone is using it for, in the first place?

    These newer ARM processors support 32-bit code at EL0 only (userspace). That seems like a reasonable approach for x86 as well and the freebsd announcement has this to say:

    > There is currently no plan to remove support for 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels.

    So for the moment, you can run 32-bit applications just fine.

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