Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:21:15 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:28:43AM -0500 References: <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101160915000.18917-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net>
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On Tuesday, 16 January 2001 at 9:28:43 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > 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. Don't forget that the i386 is still a popular CPU for embedded work. Of course, embedded people will have less of an issue with sysinstall. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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