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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:10:43 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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:  <18847.1269000643@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:59:56 -0400." <201003190759.56385.jhb@freebsd.org> 

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In message <201003190759.56385.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Thursday 18 March 2010 9:16:53 pm Xin LI wrote:

>All the x86 world is not rack-mounted 64-bit servers.  We should not remove
>support for non-686 CPUs for no good reason.  486 CPUs have cmpxchg and xadd
>so are perfectly adequate.

Seconded.

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