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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware 
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	Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:04:09 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <200005241652.JAA75843@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
:     For SMP kernels I don't think it's worth supporting either the 386 or
:     the 486.

I agree 100%.  I don't want to see that hold up the current work.  If
someone really wants to do a sequent port, then when they have code to
merge we can talk.  I'd rather put the burdon on the theoretical
porters to an older SMP platform than on the real works porting to
modern SMP platforms.

Warner


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