Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:43:44 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> Subject: Re: svn commit: r219679 - head/sys/i386/include Message-ID: <20110316204344.000017b7@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20110316200346.GA36431@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <201103152145.p2FLjAlt060256@svn.freebsd.org> <20110316004503.GM99496@mdounin.ru> <201103161233.16347.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20110316174553.GA6367@freebsd.org> <20110316200346.GA36431@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:03:46 +0100 Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > There are probably only a handful of people (if that) who actually run > FreeBSD on an actual 486-class machine, but requiring SSE2 would mean > dropping support for Pentium-III and Athlon-XP equipped machines and > I believe there are a large number of such machines still in use, and > they are still perfectly suitable for a large number of tasks. Some low power x86 CPUs don't have SSE2 either. -- Bruce Cran
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