From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 17 16: 2:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [129.94.172.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6EBE37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:02:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0H5LG008382; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:21:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:21:15 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: Will Andrews Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:28:43AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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