Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 00:28:24 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware Message-ID: <392BF518.F8170D0E@newsguy.com> References: <200005241446.IAA05589@berserker.bsdi.com>
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Chuck Paterson wrote: > > I have talked to a couple of people who think that supporting this > older stuff won't be important to FreeBSD by the time the kernel > is preemptive. Some even thought supporting the original Pentium > processors might not be required. I'll propose the following as it > reduces the work required: > > Once FreeBSD has a preemptive kernel FreeBSD will only run on > Pentium or better X86 processors. We had a lot of trouble already making people give up on their MFM/RLL controllers! Personally, I think this is the way to go, but not before 6.0. If 5.0 doesn't work on 486's, there'll be hell to pay. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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