Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:46:07 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, developer@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010116074606.E91029@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200101150808.f0F88CQ01192@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0800 References: <34097.979544060@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <200101150808.f0F88CQ01192@mobile.wemm.org>
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On 2001-Jan-15 00:08:12 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote: >The patch below does this: >http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/i386_cleanup.diff ... >To be clear: THIS DOES NOT REMOVE i386 SUPPORT! It will actually slightly >improve i386 runtime speed by removing the useless conditional tests. IMHO, this is the right approach. I don't see any reason to rip out the (working) 386 code. If it rots due to lack of interest in future, then it can be stripped out. Note that the patch doesn't currently handle the PC98. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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