1 ## Phasing out i386 Support in Dragonfly - Discussion
3 On IRC a discussion started if - and how - i386 support in DragonFly BSD should be phased out in the next e.g. 2 years.
4 This page should serve as a central point to note down arguments, pro/cons etc in a structured and organized way to prevent the discussion to repeat over and over again using the same point, etc.
6 Points noted down here can be totally subjective and be posted anonymously - but I would like to suggest that you mark them with you name or irc nick. They should be formulated concise and as short as possbile (no poetry please).
13 ### Pros and Cons on removing i386
19 * "I am using it", and there are lots of non-64bit-only features I used with each new release (lentferj)
22 ### Pros and Cons on turning 3.4-i386 into a bug-fix-only release with LTS for a defined period of time (e.g. 2 years), but no more feature updates
29 * i386 user base might still be pretty big (has to be evaluated) and would be curtained off also from none-64bit specific improvments (lentferj)
33 ### Pros and Cons on keeping i386 alive in the same way as it is now (e.g. there will be a i386-3.6 release, etc), but announcing i386 EOL for end of 20xx (e.g. 2014).