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There will always be NetBSD which runs on everything from a potato to supercomputers, no matter how many bits of address-space it has ;-)



While the porting of NETBSD used to be a meme, these days there are far more embedded platforms supported by Linux in some fashion.

Sadly not all on the mainline, but having worked in the embedded world, Linux is a massive part of that space.


I think it's reasonable to eventually treat 32-bit embedded in the same manner we treat 8-bit and 16-bit embedded today: as "weird" architectures that have their own bespoke OSes (even if it's a fork of Linux or BSD), and on which "normal" portable code is not really expected to compile or run without modifications.




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