From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 07:23:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D500A16A4CE; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:23:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from neo.samodelkin.net (samodelkin.net [195.62.0.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B043243D31; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:23:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fjoe@neo.samodelkin.net) Received: by neo.samodelkin.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 812F81706E; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:23:49 +0700 (NOVST) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:23:49 +0700 From: Max Khon To: Alexey Dokuchaev Message-ID: <20041019072349.GA28133@samodelkin.net> References: <200410181719.i9IHJa9l097436@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041018173516.GB89681@ip.net.ua> <20041018174511.GA6079@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041018183118.GA80703@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20041019071102.GA49717@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041019071102.GA49717@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: David O'Brien Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:23:55 -0000 Hi! On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:11:02AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > I think you people need to decide to either drop support for 80386 > > completely (in which case all the '#ifdef I386_CPU' and similar can go > > away) or decide to keep support for it, in which case most things > > should just work 'out of the box' on a 80386 (without recompilation > > needed more than absolutely necessary.) > > I don't really see your point; what's wrong with having support for i386, > just being hidden behind the need to tweak some things (i.e. to recompile > a custom kernel)? Methinks that we can expect certain level of competence > of someone who is willing to install FreeBSD-5 on i386, definitely being > able to rebuild a kernel (which is actually pretty easy to do compared to > Linux, for me at least). There's also an option of putting GENERIC-386 > next to GENERIC config file in /sys/i386/conf. I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several days. /fjoe