From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 18 13: 9:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E34737B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDEE43EDA for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:09:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA51483 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:09:12 -0800 Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC From: "Paul A. Scott" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <001701c2a6d4$dc7fdd40$0200000a@sewer.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Craig Reyenga" > I can't believe this thread is still polluting the email system. 386's are > old, slow, and virtually useless. I think that the time wasted on supporting > junk hardware would be better spent on utilising the features and > capabilities of new hardware. As someone mentioned, if you want to use crap > hardware, install NetBSD. FreeBSD's goal isn't to be able to run on > anything, it's to be able to run fast on specific things. With that in mind, > put your 386's away, or find a different OS. I know it may be hard to part > with old junk, but that's life. I take great offense in all of what you posted. Your opinion is extremely short-sighted and one-sided. I don't have any problem with removing 386 support from GENERIC, and there need be no requirement to pre-build anything beyond what has already been decided, but I would hope that it will be possible to simply 'make' a 386 kernel--and all the rest--indefinitely. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message