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Date:      15 Jan 2001 22:38:06 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, 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:  <xzp1yu4o5s1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:08:12 -0800"
References:  <200101150808.f0F88CQ01192@mobile.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> writes:
> 1: it removes the 486-and-above code from the 386-only cases.
> 2: it removes the runtime conditionals that everybody currently executes
>    if I386_CPU is present
> 3: prevents people shooting themselves in the foot at 'make depend' stage
>    if they accidently activate I386_CPU.

Add a big fat comment to GENERIC warning users not to include I386_CPU
in their configs if they can help it.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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