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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:13:03 +0200 (EET)
From:      Eugene Polovnikov <eugene@brain-fag.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU
Message-ID:  <200101181413.f0IED3H22106@relay1.bcs.zp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>

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how about to have in a distribution two version of GENERIC kernel 
(and modules of course) and let sysinstall choose right set ?


In article <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> you wrote:

> On Tuesday, 16 January 2001 at  9:28:43 -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
>>> Wont this make installing using sysinstall a bit hard? I know the generic
>>> kernel includes all the CPU lines, so that all cpu's are recognized... so
>>> are you going to just take this line out of the generic kernel, and have a
>>> special kern.flp disk with a generic kernel that only has the i386 support
>>> in it?
>>
>> I don't think it's worth the effort.  By the time 5.0-RELEASE goes out,
>> the 386 will have been around for over 10 years (actually I think it has
>> already reached that point and gone beyond).  There are not likely to be
>> many more installs of FreeBSD on 386's, let alone 5.x installs.
>>
>> People who *really* want to install 5.x on a 386 can generate their own
>> kernel and such.

> Don't forget that the i386 is still a popular CPU for embedded work.
> Of course, embedded people will have less of an issue with sysinstall.

> Greg
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