From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 21:13:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D6216A4D0 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:13:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF53C43D5A for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:13:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (qmail 23220 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2004 21:13:10 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Oct 2004 21:13:10 -0000 Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9JLD0oQ050277; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:13:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9JLD08h005682; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:13:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@zion.baldwin.cx) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by zion.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9JLD0KN005681; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:13:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john) From: John Baldwin To: "M. Warner Losh" Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:42:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20041019071102.GA49717@FreeBSD.org> <20041019073145.GA29746@thingy.tbd.co.nz> <20041019.084324.106215221.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20041019.084324.106215221.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410191541.54269.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:13:11 -0000 On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:43 am, you wrote: > In message: <20041019073145.GA29746@thingy.tbd.co.nz> > > Andrew Thompson writes: > : > I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several > : > days. > : > : Chicken and the egg. To support i386 it must be recompiled, so you would > : have to do it on another box anyway. > > The only people that will seriously want to use i386 these days are > the folks that build embedded systems. Those you have to build on > some host then deploy to the target system. > > There are some benefits to having i386 in the tree. However, there > are also a number of different places in the tree where things are > sub-optimal because we still have support for i386 in there. The > desire to remove them is to make FreeBSD go faster on more modern > hardware. I think 6.0 is the place to drop 80386, not 5.x. I'm already working on a p4 branch (jhb_no386) to remove 80396 support from HEAD, but I think 5.x should be left as is in this regard. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/