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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:20:04 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S
Message-ID:  <20041020202004.GM73767@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200410201553.40823.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4175B591.4090407@elischer.org> <Pine.GSO.4.43.0410192052490.13335-100000@sea.ntplx.net> <20041020190502.GA33840@dragon.nuxi.com> <200410201553.40823.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:53:40PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
+> For 6.0 we are (finally!) going to just drop 80386 altogether.  I've bee=
n=20
+> wanting to do this personally since early SMPng days, but we came to an=
=20
+> agreement back then and since we've already gone and branched RELENG_5 a=
nd=20
+> frozen the ABI I think we should stick to the previously agreed-upon pla=
n.

So maybe it is good time to think about 486 in 6.x.
I don't know how much can we get from dropping support for 486, but maybe
it's worth it.
Before the next war will start, the good argument for me is, that
FreeBSD 5.x is still going to work on 486 and we should move on.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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