Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:26:52 +0100 From: phk@FreeBSD.ORG To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <52065.1039944412@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:17:29 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150115060.41793-100000@root.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150115060.41793-100000@root.org>, Nate Lawson wri tes: >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. Because few if any 80386 computers have the ram it takes to run sysinstall. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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