From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 23 08:25:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01420 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01413 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA18513; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA28993; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981123144427.00b40940@mail.scancall.no> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:24:44 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, joelh@gnu.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Nov-98 Marius Bendiksen wrote: >>Of course we don't. Nobody who cares about speed is going to use a 486. > > Are you saying that we're going to say to people "Hey, FreeBSD is not > intended to run on anything less than a Pentium, we don't wish to get > involved with anything less, the people out there who're stuck with a 486 > had better go support Linux instead?" No. Have you even read this thread? This thread is about whether to expend significant effort and sacrifice significant elegance and maintainability in order to _slightly_ _optimize_ system calls for 486 systems. It has nothing to do with whether we support 486 systems or not. --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message