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Date:      Thu, 12 May 2005 15:12:50 -0400
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml
Message-ID:  <20050512191250.GA75545@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050512171715.GA51426@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:17:15PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> I did remember clearly that support *had* been axed. I just checked
> to see *when* it was axed (and to make sure people believed me when I
> said so. :-) )

Oh, we believe anyone.

> > > (While talking about supported hardware it might also be noted that to
> > > run 5.x on a real 80386 (+80387 FPU) you need to recompile word+kernel
> > > with 386 support (see the 2005027 and 20010116 entries in UPDATING),
> > > and for 6-CURRENT all support for a real 80386 (with or without FPU)
> > > has been axed completely (20041116 entry in UPDATING))
> > 
> > I'll see if I can put that in.
> > 
> > On the other hand: is that a FAQ?  Isn't that in the hardware notes?
> 
> These days it is probably not much of an FAQ; few people seem to try to
> install FreeBSD on anything older than a Pentium these days.
> 
> As for the hardware notes, that information ought to be there, but does
> not seem to be.
> 
> (The hardware notes for 6-CURRENT seems to be correct, while those for
> 5-STABLE needs to be updated.  The hardware notes for both 4.x and 5.x
> also has bogus warnings about the 80386sx which should be removed. (Bogus
> since from the OS's point of view there is no difference whatsoever
> between the 80386sx and a full-blowb 80386dx.)

That's under /usr/src, which rules me out.  Could you open a PR about
this, so it doesn't get lost?  Thanks much!

==ml

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