From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 30 19:47:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9365837B400; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:47:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 32863573A9; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:47:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:47:45 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <20001130214745.E28757@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <11485.974210886@critter> <20001201102915.G1474@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001201102915.G1474@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:29:15AM +1100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:29:15AM +1100, Peter Jeremy scribbled: | On 2000-Nov-14 15:08:06 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: | >Has anybody run a 486 or 386 under current recently ? | | X on a PRE_SMPNG 486 is painful - mouse movements no longer make | the X pointer move in real time. I haven't noticed the seeding | issue (probably just luck). PRE_SMPNG does not have the /dev/random seeding issue. You actually expected X to run well on a 486? :-) | >What is the consensus ? | | I think 386/486 remains a significant market and would not like to | see support dropped. I'd go so far as to suggest that if -current | does drop support for the 386/486, the then-stable version will need | to be actively maintained indefinitely to provide continued support. I do not really think the latest XFree86 versions were designed with running 386/486 in mind. 386/486 is still a market, but not many people try to build an embedded system with a full X and tools. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message