From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 20:44:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1876106564A; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:44:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AE08FC0C; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CBFE88A1; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:44:27 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=c29hPVaEP8j+ HIKpue56jLSW/uE=; b=AEDvuC2Cd/J0EmQFWeigKLx17+dKWSZd4sUCrhUNl5ZG WPgu6lSt4ldJx7FElCzaqxGjiQrJib98+fXchF5YdCo2llmnbK7CH0vYTy/UnCWm FUYZTJwZiM8KiGIik1D/Ot684t0K/7igyFvYuN6nc8eXJj/ZhPw0iKrnmm6poYo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from:to :cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=GaMVsh 98N/OVsHYTjvB7MsCU7TaOtO4MszdtUcMxw+Y0H7m1+b3497QBBwRF0ZpMVl+a3K qWf1GLNA9VWplwry7HDlqCiakl+5AvGf/sJp1+0FpVlNoVUm2CQnNvh6t6c175LE as5vPRU9aamBawLDtevXGMMdGVjxxG7a5v+Ww= Received: from unknown (client-86-31-236-253.oxfd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.236.253]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A63F6E889F; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:44:26 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:43:44 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Erik Trulsson 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs9 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Roman Divacky , svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim , Maxim Dounin Subject: Re: svn commit: r219679 - head/sys/i386/include X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:44:28 -0000 On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:03:46 +0100 Erik Trulsson 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