I received the question from Perry, whose answer needs to go out to the
list and portmasters:

: so when does the i386 or any other port switch over?

As soon as there's portmaster blessing to do so.  Some notables:

i386: probably should switch.  This is, of course, the most tested platform,
as it's the one Cygnus overtests for releases.  It's also the one egcs's
commercial distribution (as part of RedHat) runs on.

arm32: Need some more testing and approval from Mark/Neil/Richard Earnshaw
as to the stability of the code and the acceptability of the
machine-dependent extension to make softfloat work properly.  (Said
extension hasn't been committed to our tree yet either.)

m68k: Have to run regressions.  There were some last minute codegen fixes,
and one additional codegen fix that I may backport from the egcs trunk.

mipse[bl]: Needs some fixing in the config, which I will get to soon.

sparc(32): This particular code is well tested by Cygnus (although the sparc
stuff has been rewritten on the egcs trunk, so importing a snapshot of the
config/sparc directory will blow away the codegen's reliability).  sparc64
support not yet existant.

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