Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:31:45 +1300 From: Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz> To: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S Message-ID: <20041019073145.GA29746@thingy.tbd.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20041019072349.GA28133@samodelkin.net> References: <200410181719.i9IHJa9l097436@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041018173516.GB89681@ip.net.ua> <20041018174511.GA6079@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041018183118.GA80703@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20041019071102.GA49717@FreeBSD.org> <20041019072349.GA28133@samodelkin.net>
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:23:49PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:11:02AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > I think you people need to decide to either drop support for 80386 > > > completely (in which case all the '#ifdef I386_CPU' and similar can go > > > away) or decide to keep support for it, in which case most things > > > should just work 'out of the box' on a 80386 (without recompilation > > > needed more than absolutely necessary.) > > > > I don't really see your point; what's wrong with having support for i386, > > just being hidden behind the need to tweak some things (i.e. to recompile > > a custom kernel)? Methinks that we can expect certain level of competence > > of someone who is willing to install FreeBSD-5 on i386, definitely being > > able to rebuild a kernel (which is actually pretty easy to do compared to > > Linux, for me at least). There's also an option of putting GENERIC-386 > > next to GENERIC config file in /sys/i386/conf. > > I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several days. > Chicken and the egg. To support i386 it must be recompiled, so you would have to do it on another box anyway.
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