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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:17:19 -0700
From:      Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, d@delphij.net, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Utilize i686, SSE and MMX by default on FreeBSD/i386
Message-ID:  <4BA3E9DF.2050303@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1003191609030.25775@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <4BA2CE17.2050105@delphij.net> <201003190751.26767.jhb@freebsd.org> <4BA3C41F.3000404@elischer.org> <5BED0721-442C-44B3-8B23-3D94BE5354A9@samsco.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1003191609030.25775@sea.ntplx.net>

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On 2010/03/19 13:15, Daniel Eischen wrote:
[...]
> Well, we have nanobsd, but having a suitable install tool
> for small flash-based systems where you want a nanobsd-like
> setup (readonly filesystems) would be very nice.  I try
> to write procedures for our embedded systems so others
> (neophytes) can create and burn them, but it might be
> easier for someone to get started with embedded systems
> if they could do it from a release using an install tool.

Some computation intense tasks would benefit from enabling certain
optimizations which is not suitable for older processors.

However, just like John said servers tends to use 64-bit platform more
than 32-bit ones, so perhaps we can just dismiss the idea of enabling
these optimizations on FreeBSD/i386 platform and focus on FreeBSD/amd64...

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!	       Live free or die
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