From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 14 20:56:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F6F37B401; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A768543E4A; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:56:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from [216.20.231.174] (helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18NQpH-00047O-00; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:56:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3DFC0B29.FD6F7F18@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:55:05 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, akruijff@dds.nl, DavidJohnson@Siemens.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC References: <635948263.20021214220720@dds.nl> <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021214.173219.116676673.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a486e625e96592c82a6722600bc67baf7293caf27dac41a8fd350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > One problem with most 386 boxes is that they have very little memory. > sysinstall is a big, bloated pig dog these days that takes more RAM > than most 386 boxes have. This is true also for many 486 boxes too. > So even if 386 stuff were in the default kernel, you'd likely have > other issues in making sysinstall work and have to do custom > hacking... Add to this that Bosko's workaround for the CPU bug with PSE/PGE includes loading the kernel at 4M rather than 1M. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message