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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:32:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030227183209.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05200f29ba84405d006d@[128.113.24.47]>

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On 27-Feb-2003 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>I doubt the usefulness of this.  i386 kernels were just accidentally
>>broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing.
>>People wouldn't have noticed if phk@ hadn't asked for a volunteer
>>either.  I386_CPU kernel compiles have been broken in the past for
>>rather long periods of time before being noticed as well.
> 
> Well, doesn't that suggest that it would be GOOD if the release
> process itself had to build a GENERIC_I386 kernel?

It points out that no one uses I386 kernels.  Is it more valuable
to have GENERIC_I386 or KDE on disc 1?  If it came down to that I
would pick KDE.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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