Re: Softfloat on i386

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:37:20 +0000
> From: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
> 
> It also affects a wide range of embedded 586 class CPUs, such as the
> Geode LX, as used in the PC Engines ALIX series.
> 
> While these are obsolete by modern standards, all 32 bit x86 CPUs are
> obsolete by modern standards.
> 
> As such, I'd like to call for defaulting pkgsrc/lang/go to softfloat
> for NetBSD/i386. Having NetBSD provided go packages just coredump
> without apparent reason on a supported platform is a particularly bad
> look.

I suggest you draft a PKG_OPTION for it first!  Then, once it is shown
to work, we can discuss whether to flip it on by default (which is
probably a reasonable choice if it works).