Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:16:01 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <20030228161600.GA833@xtanbul> In-Reply-To: <98262.1046446934@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <XFMail.20030228103453.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <98262.1046446934@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri Feb 28, 2003 at 04:42:14PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <XFMail.20030228103453.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: > > >I personally think that we should not support the 80386 in 5.x. > >However when that has been brought up before there were a lot of > >theoretical objections. > > Well, unless somebody actually manages to put a -current on an i386 > and run the tests I suggested in a couple of weeks, then I think > those theoretical objections stand very weakly in the light of > proven reality :-) Anyways, nothing keeps a old hardware freak (like me) to take over the maintainership of 386-related stuff, if he wants to. Thing is, no one stepped forward at this time, so I guess this settles the future of the 386. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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