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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:28:43 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU
Message-ID:  <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101160915000.18917-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu>; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500
References:  <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101160915000.18917-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu>

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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> Wont this make installing using sysinstall a bit hard? I know the generic
> kernel includes all the CPU lines, so that all cpu's are recognized... so
> are you going to just take this line out of the generic kernel, and have a
> special kern.flp disk with a generic kernel that only has the i386 support
> in it?

I don't think it's worth the effort.  By the time 5.0-RELEASE goes out,
the 386 will have been around for over 10 years (actually I think it has
already reached that point and gone beyond).  There are not likely to be
many more installs of FreeBSD on 386's, let alone 5.x installs.

People who *really* want to install 5.x on a 386 can generate their own
kernel and such.

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