Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:17:29 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150115060.41793-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20021215090551.GA10215@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: > The only remotely good reason I have heard for removing support for 386 > in the default configuration is that having it in would pessimize > performance too much for more modern CPUs. How valid that reason is I > cannot judge, but I guess it is possible. Could someone enlighten me as to why we don't leave 386 support in for the boot kernel so the floppies will at least boot? Note that performance shouldn't be an issue when installing. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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