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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:44:45 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r205307 - head/sys/i386/conf
Message-ID:  <4BA2D70D.3050703@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BA2D0DF.3070606@feral.com>
References:  <201003190116.o2J1Gr2v094129@svn.freebsd.org> <4BA2D0DF.3070606@feral.com>

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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On 3/18/2010 6:16 PM, Xin LI wrote:
>> Author: delphij
>> Date: Fri Mar 19 01:16:53 2010
>> New Revision: 205307
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205307
>>
>> Log:
>>    SSE is enabled by default about 5 years ago so there is no point 
>> pretending
>>    that we support I486 and I586 CPUs in the GENERIC kernel, users 
>> wants these
>>    support would have to build a custom kernel to explicitly disable SSE
>>    anyways.
>>
>>    
> 
> And the crowd roars it's approval!

or not.

If I'm not mistaken this means that the install CDs will no longer 
even boot on a lot of machines.





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