Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:50:53 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20011020075053.C65903808@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011019181913.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > On 20-Oct-01 David E. O'Brien wrote: > > obrien 2001/10/19 18:15:54 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/i386/conf GENERIC > > Log: > > Drop support for x87 emulation. Any CPU one would dare to run 5-CURRENT > > on would have built-in FP support. > > Specifically, this drops out of the box support for 486sx's. The idea being > that if you have a 486sx you are either running an older more trimmed down > version of FreeBSD or building a custom release with a custom kernel that can > add back in the emulation code. This saves us some room on the boot floppy a t > least. :) You can also kldload the math emulator from the loader. This would be a good thing for somebody to do some patches to get it onto the extra drivers disk and/or have it autoloaded on boot after install. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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