Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:54:07 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cannot find announcement that min supported i386 CPU is now i686 Message-ID: <CANCZdfr8ASEoW8%2B%2B8A6QF_s_esUvo=gR1HLUYHy3usZ1dvqpww@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200831205136.GA15141@elch.exwg.net> References: <4460db23-9a29-7972-1b41-74585764a5d7@lists.invis.net> <20200831205136.GA15141@elch.exwg.net>
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:51 PM Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> wrote: > ## Charles Lecklider via freebsd-stable (freebsd-stable@freebsd.org): > > > As you can see from objdump below, clearly a decision was made that 11.4 > > would no longer support anything before a i686. > > Given that the hardware notes > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.4R/hardware.html#proc-i386 > explicitely claim 80486 compatibility, I'd guess this was not a > consciuous decision but a blunder which wasn't caught (perhaps as > hardware of that vintage is getting rare these days. That box > must be old enough to buy alcohol by now?). > The default is to compile for i686. However, you can still roll your own if you need anything back to i486. Warner
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